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    M1210 Vista Upgrade and Multi Booting

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by schooner, Mar 14, 2007.

  1. schooner

    schooner Notebook Guru

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    I have an M1210 on the way with Vista Home Premium that I want to upgrade to Ultimate (which I have). Can this just be run over the current install or do you need to do a full clean install? Any issues with doign such an upgrade, things to do/watch for?

    Also I'd like to be able to run multi boots with Vista, XP, and Ubuntu. Any issues with this and what is the best way to setup this laptop for dual booting?
     
    schooner, Mar 14, 2007
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  2. Airman

    Airman Band of Gypsys NBR Reviewer

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    To install Ultimate you would be doing so over Home Premium, as far as running Ultimate, XP, and Ubuntu, I find the easiest way to do so is through Virtual Machine as you can easily access them through your main OS. Dual and Multi booting can run into issues and you must dedicate hard drive space to them beforehand. Where as with VM it is taken as needed.
     
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  3. arunmkumaran

    arunmkumaran Notebook Geek

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    The easiest way is to use anytime upgrade to upgrade home premium to ultimate. For mutibooting it should not be a problem it works fine only thing is that Ubuntu's GRUB loader will replace windows boot loader. If that is not a problem for you (actually it is not) then you are ready to go. Only issue with multi booting as Airman said is that you got to have enough HDD space else virtual machine is a easy way to go (though i would personally prefer multi boot). Microsoft's virtual PC 2007 works great and is free too.
     
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  4. schooner

    schooner Notebook Guru

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    How is Virtual PC performance wise on this laptop? Any real issues? I'd just like to run the other OSs for testing software, reviewing websites, etc. Don't plan to try any high end apps in Virtual PC.
     
    schooner, Mar 14, 2007
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