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    Installing windows 7 and vista in Studio XPS 1645

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by nealloy1981, Feb 2, 2010.

  1. nealloy1981

    nealloy1981 Notebook Evangelist

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    HI GUYS,

    today i have received my XPS 1645 laptop. i have been trying to install vista ultimate and windows 7(Dual Partition). so what i did, i have fresh installed win7 then made several partitions through device manager. so afterward when i ran machine from vista dvd to install vista it says that i cant install in other than the win7 partition as they r dynamic. what the hell is that?

    plz help me for dual booting in this machine. and also creat some other partitions.
     
    nealloy1981, Feb 2, 2010
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  2. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    Install Vista first, then install 7. Make your partitions with the Vista disk utility at install time.

    Or I think you can probably just scrap Vista and just run 7. Why would you dual-boot those two?
     
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    nealloy1981 Notebook Evangelist

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    how can i break all the partitions including operating system. caus i m getting all dynamic partitions through win7 operating system which is not allowing me to install vista. is there any software or any way that i can make the whole hdd in a solid piece then i will install os one by one.
     
    nealloy1981, Feb 2, 2010
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