Vista and partitioning...please help!

hollywoodhoppy

Ok, thanx for reading this, i have a dell xps and am getting a free upgrade to home premium which i should have soon and i'm wondering vista is worth installing??

i have no experience with partitioning or dual booting etc and would appreciate direction to a guide to doing this. i also have about 80gb of my 160gb hardrive full of media etc and was wondering if i would set up a partition for this too, would these media files be accessible while in the other partitions? will i lose all my installed programs, games and music etc when i install vista?

Also has anyone else received their dell upgrade? i'm def registered, its still pending tho, they better not be holding out on me

anyways any help is gratefully accepted

Ginger

I followed this

http://apcmag.com/5023/dual_booting_xp_with_vista

And the blog entry for mine is on http://blogs.mobhaile.ie/nolonger

Works well and is very easy to do.. BUT!!!! If you can afford to loose the data dont do it!

I used Windows Vista Ultimate that allowed me to do a clean install, i dont know if the ones from Dell are only upgrade DVDs