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If you do, could you also direct me to a website that will show me how to partition the hard drive and make my laptop dual bootable;
Just do a search on "Dual Boot Windows 7 with XP (or Vista)..." and you will find a number of articles.
FWIW, we followed one from lifehacker.com, as that site often has worthwhile content.
That guide also suggests using GParted to partition your HD under XP - personally would rather use Partition Magic (or perhaps try Partition Commander).
Afraid we cheated & simply added a new HD to my wife's Desktop system, as she needed the extra space. (Not an option with most notebooks - although think some allow replacing built-in CD/DVD ROM with an extra HD....).
Don't know how new / old your Dell is, but her machine is running an AMD SEMPRON, with 1GB of RAM + an nVidia 5700 based graphics card: thus far Win 7 seems to run GREAT on it!
Based upon this result we have ordered two copies of the Win 7 Home Premium upgrade - along with a 2GB RAM kit for her system to bring things fully up to speed.
Good Luck!
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