I've just bought a new machine that comes with Vista basic home preinstalled (AMD dual core 4200+, 2Gb RAM, nothing special but a vast improvement over my current offering). I've heard nightmare stories about people trying to uninstall Vista and installing XP instead. Should I just swap out my old hard drive with XP installed then format the new one and use as a second storage area.
Or any suggestions as to a good way forward?
One of the reasons I'm upgrading is to get DirectX10 compatibility, does DirectX10 work with XP or will I need to keep Vista installed?