Posted on 09/20/2012 2:50:04 PM PDT by Hazelwood Redneck Brain Trust
I have an HP laptop loaded w/Windows XP.
I would like to put Windows 7 on there, but there are about 500 warnings - make sure you do this, don't do that - b/c I am going from XP to Win7.
So my problem is: Can I partition my laptop hard-drive so that I can load Win7 on a separate partition... or would it be just as well to go ahead and remove XP after loading Win7 where XP is now?
Memory space (RAM and Hard-drive) isn't an issue, neither is the processor.
If I partition; what are the pro's and con's?
Most people who do a dual-boot to avoid doing an upgrade are under the impression that the new version will look just like the previous one. That always ends in frustration.
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