W7 there, and then add all your programs. This could be done while retaining your Vista installation so you can keep on working while you install. So that means having 2 drives, and using your BIOS setup to switch between Vista and W7. SP2 for vista...

Hugely smoother than Vista retail a few weeks after it came out :O Shadow: I unplugged my current hard drive and booted/loaded Win7 onto an eSATA hard drive enclosure. Working fine. Curnel_d:Concerning antivirus...if you go to the Mircrosoft provided page,...

you're using a perticular hard drive which doesn't support the rai on xp, to start go to the laptop bios menu and disable "RAID" or anything that's to deal with it. this will allow xp cd to find your hard drive. if that doesnt work, there is 1 more try,...

Just use the bootable Vista DVD will do. I had my Inspiron 6000 installed with Vista 32-bit. I only have 2GB RAM, so 32 works for me. Best is to reformat your hard drive to have a clean install. I don't know how to install Vista 64 on a Dell Inspiron, but...

repartition to remove Vista and install XP. When I boot into Windows Setup, I get an error message that says: "Setup could not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer. Make sure any hard disk drives are powered on and properly connected to...

Vista multibooting. Try this. Unplug the SATA drive and install XP onto the PATA hard drive. Once done, unplug the PATA drive and plug the SATA drive and install Vista. After both are installed and up to date, leave both plugged in and go into your BIOS...

hard drive clean to be able to install a new OS. I thought maybe to insert my vista installation CD, but it didn't give me an option to delete it, so I'm not really sure what to do. Btw, its Vista Home Premium 64bit that I am installing, and Windows 7 Ultimate...