I have an HP DC5800 that came with XP and Vista preloaded. I chose XP on first boot and it has worked flawlesly until now, now that IE8 no longer works very well with most web sites.
I wouldlike to now upgrade to Vista with the restore discs, and the COA sticker is for Vista. There are two OS restore discs, and one more that says 'use this one first', and a disc labelled HP diagnostics.
Q- If I choose to do the restore will it just overwrite the XP files and leave the recovery and restore partition in place, and functioning?
Q- will my files be lost? I use a third party backup system.
Q- If I install a new hard drive and partition to C and D, installing the Vista on C, where do I get the backup and restore software for drive D?