Should I install Windows Vista dual-boot on XP pc?

Question

2.6 Ghz Core 2 Duo
2 Gb of RAM
160 Gb Hard drive
XP Pro SP2

I get a free copy of Vista from school, and I want to try it out. My setup would be to have both XP and Vista in the same hard-drive. However, I hear Vista just plain sucks (Amazon.com reviews). Is it even worth it or should I keep my hard-drive clean and keep XP only?

Answer 1

i don't like vista all that much but it's good for general use... i say go for it because i'm planning on dual booting when i downgrade to xp.

if you don't know how it's pretty simple.. create another partition (vista lets you choose where to install so that makes it easy) ..then download and use this if you want to http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1 it explains itself so i really don't need to go into detail. but, when installation is done add vista in there and it'll make start up easier.. use that to set xp as the default o/s... unless you like vista alot.

Answer 2

Vista is annoying. Very little to be excited about and a bigger drag on resources.
Although I kept XP on an 80 gig drive for years, Vista AND xp on a 160 might be a little crowded.

Your old printer and scanner might be abandoned by the programmers, or not have all the helper programs that came with it in XP

Answer 3

I dual boot between xp and vista with no problems vista does not suck depends on how old your programs are u wanna run on vista (compartitbility issues) It happens with any new OS that has just come out don't know if u remember when xp just came out.
But you gonna have to format your hard drive and bi-sect it into 2 partitions to do that so backup your data.

Answer 4

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