I have an Acer Aspire 5102 (5100 series) wich came with Vista Home Basic, I'm pretty unhappy with vista because the drivers for ati x1100 graphics adapter aren't all that grate and overall it makes the laptop slower.
I want to install Windows XP but I don't know what's going to happen with the recovery partition, can it be remade if I delete it, will it do something if I erase Vista and install XP? Can I install XP now and still e able to chose between it and vista at startup, will a bootloader from a linux distribution help see both XP and Vista if XP is installed after Vista and to acomplish this is there a safe Partitioning program that works in vista (like partition magic).
I want to install Windows XP but I don't know what's going to happen with the recovery partition, can it be remade if I delete it, will it do something if I erase Vista and install XP? Can I install XP now and still e able to chose between it and vista at startup, will a bootloader from a linux distribution help see both XP and Vista if XP is installed after Vista and to acomplish this is there a safe Partitioning program that works in vista (like partition magic).