I had no problem installing Vista as a dual boot on my XP machine. It did make Vista the primary boot OS, but the process was fairly smooth.


>I think the speciffic annoyance was "can it boot in parallel with XP", not "is the Vista any good?".
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>I know I had very bad experience (read: a wasted day) trying to install the Vista and XP in the wrong order. XP thinks the Vista is a virus or something and completely wipes out any traces of the other from the boot sector (which is, IMO, not by chance - XP deals with anything foreign in the same manner, no matter whether it comes from Open Source or from The Future Microsoft which may have taken who knows what sort of a turn), while Vista didn't come with any sort of bootable disk, just a wipe-it-all and reinstall-all-of-HP's-crapware restore partition, equally unusable for dual booting.
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>So... there must be solutions for this, but none of that would work on my laptop.