Webuser Forums: Dual boot questions

Hello,

I've got a laptop (Compaq Presario C700) from my son (I'm 64 by the by).

While it's good and very handy, some of the programmes I use won't work. I spoke to my son and he suggested doing a dual boot system, now I've search the internet and I can't make head nor tail of how to do it - my son tried to explain but he's made things worse for me.

When I go into My Computer - I see two drives: One called "Local Disc (C)" and the other "Presario_RP(D)" - does this mean I have two hard discs crammed into the laptop or this is a partition?

From what I've read about it I need to have a Vista disc - all I have a the recovery discs - will they do?

Guess, what I'm asking is can some nice person give me an idiots guide?

Many thanks in advance

Rog the OldBoy

Almost forgot (typical for me) The D drive has a large file called Recovery, can this be deleted if I have the recovery discs?

Edited by OldBoy (Mon May 19 2008 05:47 PM)

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