Recently, I bought a new laptop to replace my old SONY VAIO B Series,a special edition model of HP DV6500. My plan was to dual boot Vista and XP in a single machine. The hard disk is a whopping 200GB storage so I have the luxury to play around with its partition. This is how I subdivided it: 50 for Vista, 50 for XP and the remaining for data storage. My main goal is to be familiar with Vista without removing XP as an option in case some of my programs wont work in Vista. And so everything went as planned. The DV6500 is originally designed for Vista. That is why there was no problem installing drivers for Vista. After the Vista installation, I proceeded immediately with the XP installation. Upon installation it automatically reconfigured the bootloader of Vista. Meaning to say Vista was nowhere to be found during boot up. Thanks to some helpful computer geeks in the internet,I managed to obtain a software to fix this problem. Actually this was just the lesser problem. The real headache was in the loading of drivers that will work for XP. Although most drivers are downloadable in the HP website itself, some were not available. So I have to search for other resources. It took me almost a week to remedy this problem. But for sure it was worth the effort.
My machine is now up and running. Surprisingly I started to like Vista. At first it was XP that I oftenly used, but eventually as I learned new tricks and new features in Vista, I appreciated it more and more. Performance-wise I prefer Vista more than my already tweaked XP. In terms of program conflicts there is none at the moment. All my programs in XP went pretty well in Vista.
I would like to try installing Vista in MAC some other time. That would be cool I suppose.
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