How to create dual boot/OS on new laptop

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noddydog

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My new Dell laptop turned up today. As agreed Dell have installed XP whilst also supplying Vista on a seperate CD-ROM. The logic behind this is the IT chaps in our company recommended it, something to do with company networks and drivers not liking Vista, but told to get it anyway for future OS upgrade.

Anyway in the past on my own PC's I have formatted the hard drive and created two partitions with different operating systems on each, both accessed via a dual boot up option.

What I would like to know is what is the easiest way of creating another partition on my new laptop and installing Vista and hopefully having a dual boot up option thereafter?

For example do I have to purchase third party software like Partition Magic, or can it all be done from inside XP using Windows utilities?

Many Thanks,

Noddydog.
 
you need to make a second partition off main hard drive wither with a program like partition magic or with windows cd during installation. i know windows vista allows this during windows use of shrinking and extending partitions.
 
there are many free partitioning softwares out there. vista has its own partitioning function but i had some trouble with it. here is the one that i used, pretty easy. LINK
 
I tried to follow your link, but part of it is replaced with *******, can you give me the link in some other format, or possibly just the name?
 
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