Why do it on a different partition? Why not just reformat it with an xp cd? Last I remember, jaws wasn't working overly well with vista. Omar Binno www.omarbinno.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Justin Kauflin To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2007 6:16 PM Subject: [ddots-l] OT: Vista+JAWS8 Hello, this is sort of off topic, but I purchased a Dell Laptop and wasn't given an option to get XP on as the operating system. I'm writing to find out if anyone else has ventured out into the new and unstable world of Windows Vista and how is that going? I would really like some help in getting this to work out a little better. I am hoping to get Sibelius and Sonar on this laptop and am very weary of huge conflicts. If nobody has any experience with Vista, would anybody have any suggestions on reinstalling XP on the same laptop on a different partition? Thanks for any help with this. Justin kauflin