Does vista support dual OS?

Question

am plannin to buy a new laptop. can anyone pls answer tis ques and suggest me on the configuration and brands i can prefer.tanku!!!!

Answer 1

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Vista does not support dual booting but you can have as many different operating systems as you want on your pc, eg vista and xp and ubuntu all at the same time.

You will need to use a boot loader program such as lilo or grub to load which ever os you want to run.

If you are planning to buy a new pc then then go to the makers support site for that model to see if they offer drivers for the different os, otherwise you might have reduced functionality in each of the os, eg the built in webcam might work in vista but not xp.

With regard to brand buy one from a big name- it will be more likely that you will be able to get support for it in 5 years.

Configuration- hard to say- how much do you want to spend? what will you use it for? do not buy anything that has 2gb of max ram or less. Vista is very resource hungry.

Answer 2

You want to dual boot? Sure you can. Google how to dual boot with Vista. Plenty of tutorials around.

Answer 3

YES

Answer 4

YES
i installed linux and vista ultimate..........

Answer 5

yes vista support dual os. core 2 duo, 2 gb ram. choose any brand but if u buy directly to the hp or else they do not give u door 2 door service
, so i suggest just buy third party vendor, they will gives you good support.

Answer 6

yes sureeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee…

if your budget is around or upto 30 to 35 000 then try hcl,hp,compaq or lenovo

if you can spend to 50,000 then try to get dell or sony

above that buy apple

Answer 7

yes u can do that.....

and fro da 2nd one if u r not doin any high graphics work u can try acer....it is da best in low budget and also gives good config.....i am using acer.4720 aspire......u can try the aspire series and it will give u good range of laptops.....

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Vista provides a better interface with regarding to appearance and functionality. Like u can easily partition the hard drive even OS is installed. u can install Ubuntu with making any partition. If ur system effected with and deadly virus then u dont need even to format the hard disk u can simply restore to the factory image. Which is a great recovery provided by Vista according to my knowledge is concerned