New user with Dual boot question on Dell 10V

[addicted2climbing]

Hello All,

 

I am new to this group, but plan to learn as much as I can. Anyhow after research on this site I was planning to buy a netbook and add the Mac OS myself, but I managed to find a used Dell 10v with the Mac OS already done. However I was planing to set it up with a dual boot of windows XP or 7 and am curious if I can add it to what I have, or if I need to start from scratch. A coworker mentioned using boot camp or Parallels but when I look at the guides here its done a different way. I bought this netbook to use on vacation to load photos as well as have internet wherever I go, but I do have some applications that are Windows only that I woulld not mind having access to as well.

 

So my question is what is the best way to load a second OS to a netbook that already has the MAC OS installed? Since I am pressed for time, I would prefer to add to what I have iff possible rather then a complete reinstall. However if complete reinstall is required I can instill the help of a coworker who knows more about MACS then I do.

 

Also I have both XP and Win 7 and am leaning toward XP since its less of a resource hog.

 

Any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated,

 

Take care,

 

Marc