Vista pre-installed SLOW! Dual boot Possible?

Hi

I have a laptop with vista business installed on it.
About 2 months ago i wiped the laptop clean and put ubuntu gutsy on (7.10). Everything was working great but now im starting a work placement and have loaded vista back on. But i miss ubuntu.
I would like to do a dual boot but im afraid that my system would not be able to handle it as vista is already incredibly slow(ish).

Here is my spec:

• Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T5500
• 1024MB RAM
• 1.66GHZ
• 667MHz FSB
• 2MB Cache
• 80 GB Hard Drive

Is this possible?

Thanks

cobi-7

yes. but, next time, try google first!

noted! i guess the main reason i was asking was to determine how much disk space i should allocate. All my music and files are on external hdd, just work files will be used and stored on the lap top.

Would 20 gb be generous enough to both OS and still run a good lot of apps on each one?

as per the specs, vista requires a minimum 20 gb hdd, so you may need to divide your hdd into 3 partitions:

20 gb for vista
20 gb for xp
40 gb for storage

BTW, you should upgrade your RAM to 2GB. Just like Mac OS X, Vista really shouldn't be run with less (although you can).

Also, without accounting for the difference between market GB and actual GB (1000000000 bytes vs. 1073741824 bytes) or the space taken up by formatting, Vista will take up approx. 6-10GB (my windows folder is 6.5, I can't measure the size of the original program files folder anymore). So if you give yourself 20GB then you'd be left with approx 10GB for other programs which personally, I'd be crampt (my apps take up about 50gigs) but if you don't use it for much then you'd be fine.

XP takes up about 4GB so you'd have about 16GB left for other stuff after you install.

Im actually thinking about maybe 20 or 25 for linux and the rest for vista, i dont plan on 3 os on the system.

The programs i am running are dev programs, mostly like visual studio etc and some graphical programs.

bear in mind linux needs swap space too, but im sure you knew that already since youve had it installed once.