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Vista and XP

  • 03-01-2008 3:39pm
    #1
    Jay Dee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 668 ✭✭✭


    Got a new laptop over Christmas, came with Vista preloaded.
    I have a lot of stuff running on XP and I have the original discs.
    Can I install XP and have it run as well as Vista, and not overwrite it.
    If so, how do I do it.


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  • #2
    ntlbell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,288 ✭✭✭✭ntlbell


    grr


  • #3
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,563 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Not legally, unless the copy of windows XP
    - not an OEM copy
    - not an upgraded copy where OEM was the version upgraded
    - not installed on any other PC.

    While you can downgrade Vista Business or Enterprise or Ultimate to XP pro you can't run both OS's at the same time.

    As a general rule installing windows will block booting of all other OS's except older versions of windows. So you'd have to shrink the partition and do a parallel install of XP and then fix Vista and have fun and games with drive letters. Or do a clean install of XP and then an install of Vista on the same partition.


  • #4
    Jay Dee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 668 ✭✭✭Jay Dee


    Dear Capt'n Midnight ,

    Thank you for the reply.
    Sorry but I am not very tech minded, so I have one or two more questions,
    I can "do a clean install of XP" however " and then an install of Vista on the same partition." is a problem as it was preloaded on the laptop when it came and there were no discs.
    Any ideas on how to get around this?


  • #5
    layke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,956 ✭✭✭layke


    Hi,

    Did a downgrade from vista to xp for a customer recently (it was a HP).
    A lot of vendors do offer this as a service. Contact your support and they may send you a copy of XP which will work using the Vista key supplied. It should cost nothing as you already have a Vista license.

    On the no disks thing, there is probably a utility installed that will write your syste,m disks to CD's or DVD's. Usually called 'Recovery software' or 'Recovery backup'.


  • #6
    Clseeper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 282 ✭✭Clseeper


    Why go back to XP? I've recently moved to Vista 64Bit on a new system and all of my software still works on vista. Have you tried installing them to see?

    So far everything works apart for Adobe illiustrator which I'd didn't use much so haven't really bothered following up on it.


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  • #7
    Jay Dee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 668 ✭✭✭Jay Dee


    layke,
    The laptop is a Dell.
    I am not trying to downgrade, what I would like is, to have is the option on booting the laptop to choose which system (XP or Vista) to use.

    Clseeper,
    I have not tried to install most of them. They may work.

    Thanks for the help.


  • #8
    Stephen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,484 ✭✭✭✭Stephen


    I know this depends totally on what applications you want to use, but everything I had on XP is working fine in Vista. It may well be worth installing your apps to see if they work.


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