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    Playing with Windows 7 on your XPS Studio's

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by DELL_boy, Mar 9, 2009.

  1. DELL_boy

    DELL_boy Notebook Consultant

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    Hey I'm interested to hear from those who are experimenting with Windows 7 on their Studio XPS laptops have you had any issues with drivers or anything, is everything working ok?

    Also what program do you recommend for dual booting say vista as your primary os and then a partition for windows 7?

    I'm new to experimenting with beta OS's but I most certainly will have a look into windows 7.
     
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    Brendanmurphy Your Worst Nightmare

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    Just use the built in vista partion manager and install it on that second partion. And use windows boot manager its that simple
     
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    DELL_boy Notebook Consultant

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    Ok thanks a lot! It's probably best to keep it simple like that it's just I see all these dual booting programs but like quite a few programs there unneeded really.
     
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    Brendanmurphy Your Worst Nightmare

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    Basicly no programs are neccessary unless your on xp then all you need is Gpart . Other than that its quite simple really. From vista partion manager you can even shrink your partion to make space for a windows 7 partion
     
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