Summary: "-Does a dual boot system take up a lot of memory, as opposed to just having one signel operating system?" single, dual, triple boot does not have any...
Summary: I have Dell Dimension 8400s manufactured after July 14, 2004, the PC Factory Restore/Recovery image was built into the system. I also asked for the Wi...
Summary: I've got a drive on my system that somehow became an Active partition. Computer management won't let me format it. Is there a way inside Vista to fix ...
Summary: I have had RTM (pretty much retail in disguise) on this machine for close to 3 months now & besides the minor (driver) issue with my seemingly older A...
Summary: Delete the second partition and install SuSE to the free space. I don't know how Vista plays with other operating systems. Generally Microsoft does no...
Summary: Sure you can, slip in the XP cd and delete the partition that Vista is on(make sure you are deleting the right partition), make a new partition out of...
Summary: It doesn't ask which drive letter to install upon. It needs which disk and partition. If second partition on first hard drive then Disk 0 and partitio...
Summary: I had no problem at all installing XP alongside a pre-installed Vista on my HP nc6320 laptop. On the other hand, I get stuck right from the start, whe...
Summary: Ok in this thread a while ago: http://computing.net/windowsxp/wwwboard/forum/152579.html I almost came to solving it, someone recommended that I shoul...
Summary: Go to the menu bar near the top and select Tools (If the menu bar (file, edit, view, tools, help)isn't there, got to "Tools" on the far right and sele...
Summary: Do you have a proper Vista DVD that came with your PC or is the recovery partition the only thing you have? If you have a Vista DVD with the full OS o...
Summary: Data on a hard disk can be recovered after a full format too -- it all depends on the motive behind the recovery exercise. IMHO, simply deleting any &...
Summary: ok ... download all the drivers from the link above (burn to CD, save on a USB stick, etc.) then boot the laptop from your XP CDROM and follow these i...
Summary: I bought a Toshiba 4gig drive at what I thought was a beaut price (50% off). It has what is called a "TransMemory" Launchpad which is on a U3 smart d...
Summary: Eh, who cares? My point is that the vista automatic startup repair function should detect that no partition is set as active and fix it, just like a 2...
Summary: Deleting the fourth partition shouldn't completely destroy the multi-boot arrangement. However, you will need rewrite the machine's boot loader using ...
Summary: Partition magic is a pretty good program that will combine both partitions into one. Also to delete the first partition, just go to disk management an...
Summary: What do you mean by two types ... OEM & Retail? Anyhow, the best way to downgrade to XP is: delete your Vista partition & install XP in its place. Als...
Summary: Hi, I have Vista Ultimate with a TV tuner and another computer with XP Pro. Vista is setup nicely to watch and pause live tv etc. I can save these rec...
Summary: The proper way to create partitions is to first create extended partition then logical partitions on extended partition. In other words, logical part...
Summary: I should have tried more to do the partition and dual boot. Now I need to know how to shrink the Virtual machine window down from full screen. Meanwhi...
Summary: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RunMRU as a series of values a-z. To delete an entry from the run menu perform t...
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