Is the trial version an upgrade?
Do you have a partition available for Vista besides the XP partition?
Disconnect the XP hard drive.
Install Vista to another hard drive.
Make the Vista drive the first drive in the boot order.
http://www.pro-networks.org/vistabootpro/intro.php
Reconnect the XP drive.
Use vistabootpro to setup a dual boot.
If something doesn't work, all you have to do, is disconnect the Vista drive
and XP will boot.
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Ronald Sommer
: Hi, thanks for the reply - How would i do a installation for dual booting.
: Do i just install Vista as per normal and choose in the setup to create
: another partition and install it on there. will that give me the option of
: choosing in the beginning to which operating system to boot
:
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: : > This is probably not a good computer on which to test a trial version of
: > Windows vista.
: >
: > 1) You cannot uninstall Windows Vista. You will have to reinstall
Windows
: > XP
: > once the trial expires. Once the trial expires your computer will be
: > unsuable
: > until you either install a licensed version of Vista or you reinstall
: > Windows
: > XP again (this will erase all your programs and data on the C: drive, or
: > other local drives)
: >
: > 2) You can install Windows XP and Vista on the same computer, but unless
: > you
: > are sure of how to do this I would not reccomend this option as you
could
: > stop your Windows XP from working. This would be called "dual booting"
: >
: >
: > "MSExchange2003Student" wrote:
: >
: >> Hi all
: >>
: >> I have a XP pro pc (log onto the domain) which is need to work in the
: >> bussiness. no-one is working on their but certain applications is
runing
: >> on
: >> there. I want to install Vista trial version to see how it looks and
: >> functions. Can i do it on this XP pc and if so will it infulence the
: >> operational status of the pc and after the trail has expired (30 or 60
: >> days)
: >> will the pc just go back to the registered xp version or what will
: >> happen?Thanks
: >>
: >>
: >>
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