Windows Vista Vista Basic with Home Premium Dual Boot installation

Hello again. Im Chris and just want to ask some questions.

My laptop is an Asus F80L with built in and pre-installed Windows Vista Home Basic. I have a Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium at my arsenal and want to install it. Can I install it on my laptop as a dual boot or will I remove my installed Vista Basic? (but will not delete the image partition)

Question 2: Since I ran the Vista Upgrade advisory 2 times, it says it can run Home Premium and also it can run Vista Ultimate, Can I proceed to Ultimate or can I install Business (assuming I bought one of these instead of Home Premium). I can swap my license with my friend who also bought Business at the same time but dont mention Ultimate to me (kidding. never like to install ultimate as I heard it can give you the blue screen of death). lol

Thank you for your time

 

My laptop has a second partition. I was forced to pay for the Basic that's why I would like to keep the Basic. I wonder why Asus placed Basic on a 2GB RAM-160GB HDD when it can actually run Home Premium? Why cant Asus put Home Premium, instead.

My Home Premium disc can wait if we can get an upgrade from Asus since I bought a VLK one from Microsoft at our local dealer.

Also, there's an option in Windows that will aloow you to single boot an OS with two installed ones. It's in the Advanced System Settings>System Properties>Start up Recovery settings

 

It'll be either sell my unused Home Premium and buy an upgrade or have a multi boot and hide the Home Basic.

Thanks for clearing things up. I thought Vista doesnt like another vista in a dual boot since I saw Vista x XP dual boot topics (Google)

I'll then decide it. Thanks again