[luke robinson]

Originally Posted by luke robinson

Does anyone know if there's any way to alter the size of the partition on your hdd without having to delete all the data in that partition. I want to install Xp alongside Vista on my laptop but i don't want to delete Vista because it's a genuine version but I only have the recovery disks and not the installation disks.

Originally Posted by 4D(Fordy(Ford) Ollie

start your own thread next time

Ford Ollie, if you look at the topic of the thread it's about changing from Xp to Vista. That's what my post was about.

Thanks Dave, i'll try partition magic. Hopefully it'll do the job.

[Fordy]

Originally Posted by Dave Hybrid

He started this one...

oh.. ok, but still different subject.. youre the boss...

[stugster]

Originally Posted by luke robinson

OEM's arn't compatable with most systems whereas retail versions are.

WTF? That's the silly-statement of the year.

OEMs are simply packaged alongside the hardware with (usually) pre-installed/configured drivers.

There are restrictions with OEMs, in that you can only sell that version of the software with the associated hardware. The reason it's cheap is:

1) you don't get the box, and all the crap that goes with the original version;
2) the software vendor gets to distribute that package via the hardware vendor on a large scale, and not sell it directly to retailers.

[slayer54545454]

How Did You Get Your Desktop To Look Like That?

[xactly]

Originally Posted by Dave Hybrid

Anyone translate that for me?

no what i meant is that if you buy an oem it will cost around £100 and if you register it and your hardware is not vista compaticle then you'll go out and force yourself to buy the full retail one for £300 so you can change your hardware in the future and you aren't stuck to the components you'v got.

[Hybr!d]

Originally Posted by xactly

no what i meant is that if you buy an oem it will cost around £100 and if you register it and your hardware is not vista compaticle then you'll go out and force yourself to buy the full retail one for £300 so you can change your hardware in the future and you aren't stuck to the components you'v got.

Wrong answer.

Even with OEM and a hardware change a simple call to Microsoft gets you re-validated.

[c master]

Originally Posted by Dave Hybrid

Wrong answer.

Even with OEM and a hardware change a simple call to Microsoft gets you re-validated.

seriously i thought that was the whole point in oem's im gonna do that with my next computer thanks for the info(you made my day).