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Posted By: TechSupport on 2009-02-28
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A little further explanation on dual-booting:
The hard drives that come in computers today are typically simply enormous and can easily accommodate not only both the Vista and XP operating systems, but still have plenty of room for huge application suites like Microsoft Office.
A "dual-boot" system is one in which more than one operating system (say, Vista and XP) are stored on the hard drive, and when you start your computer a "boot manager" intervenes to ask you which operating system you'd like to run. Usually, one of them is the "default" that will load if you make no selection at all.
It's a bit technical to install a second operating system, but by no means tricky, and any decent local computer shop will know how to accomplish this. Of course, you'd have to purchase a copy of whatever operating system you want to install that does not come already installed on your system.
Along this line, though, it might be interesting to ask Dell whether they would create a dual-boot system for you and what it would cost. I've never inquired myself because I create my own, but there's no inherent reason they couldn't do this.
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