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    Running Dell's recovery CD after having Vista installed

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by ShaneR, Apr 21, 2007.

  1. ShaneR

    ShaneR Notebook Guru

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    Hey, Folks.

    This isn't an important situation...

    I purchased a 6400 back in December and wiped the HD as soon as it came in for my own copy of XP pro. Shortly after Vista was released I purchased a copy of Vista (OEM) as i had the chance to try it "free" and it worked great (put that on , getting rid of XP).

    Vista Still works great for me...but, I'm bored and I'm thinking about putting xp back on in a dual boot with Vista (I want to start with a clean install of Vista as well due to all my "tinkering").

    So...will the original XP System disk I received from dell still work? I thought I read somewhere that the license for that XP may have been invalidated now that I have installed Vista. I don't have my copy of XP anymore as I put it on my inlaw's box (They bought a system from someone who built it with a pirated copy of XP), so I need to use Dell's disk.

    As I said, not an important situation...

    Thanks :)
     
    ShaneR, Apr 21, 2007
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  2. ShaneR

    ShaneR Notebook Guru

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    Think I just answered my own question....the invalidation of the XP license is only for upgrade versions of Vista, not full versions. Makes sense if I would have thought about it..lol.
     
    ShaneR, Apr 21, 2007
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  3. Rodster

    Rodster Merica

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    Shane from what i've read it will be much easier to perform a dual boot environment by installing XP first then Vista. I've done it that way and it works great.
     
    Rodster, Apr 21, 2007
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  4. ShaneR

    ShaneR Notebook Guru

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    Thanks, Rodknee...that what I was planning to do :) ...I probably wasn't very clear ;)
     
    ShaneR, Apr 21, 2007
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    gohanssjn Notebook Evangelist

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    I have Vista installed and then installed XP with no issues. Try this guide:

    Vista -> XP + Vista

    The only thing I did different: To shrink the partition, I just used Vista Disk Manager.

    The same site has a XP -> XP + Vista guide. Good luck!
     
    gohanssjn, Apr 21, 2007
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  6. ShaneR

    ShaneR Notebook Guru

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    Everything went smooth. Put XP on and then Vista. No problems at all.

    Two strange things:

    Downloading Dell's drivers for XP, I noticed their ATI drivers are from July/06...I was a little surprised at that. I heard the omega drivers were good?

    After doing a clean install of Vista, It's running better then it was following my first install back in febuary and much better than it was the other day...I must have had some programs/utilities dragging it down...I'll be carefull of what I put on now. Really quite surprising, the difference.
     
    ShaneR, Apr 22, 2007
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