re: Dual boot Vista/XP
Sunday, February 11, 2007 at 8:30 pm
Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by jabronne
(7 messages posted)
My advice on dual booting.
My experience is with the "upgrade version".
First, you can only have one drive connected or setup will fail. Second, make sure
your motherboard bios is current to the month. Third, the drivers on the install
dvd are totally useless, use them and you will see a blue screen. Download the drivers
for your motherboard and on install use the 'have disk' feature in setup. If you
plan on dualing to a partion on your primary drive, consider using a boot manager
3rd party app or be prepared to nuke your xp install AND get bluescreened during
setup.
Best idea, buy a second hard drive, disconnect your current hd. Run setup and dont
enter a key, isntall a 30 day trial of the product you bought, then upgrade it with
the dvd when the trial is installed (or clean install from there).
GOOD LUCK AND BACKUP...probably see you here for the next couple of weeks bitching
about vista!!!
On Saturday, February 10, 2007 at 3:46 pm, Steve wrote:
>Already lots on info on the Internet about this topic.
>http://www.google.com/search?q=dual+boot+XP%2C+and+Vista&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
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- re: Dual boot Vista/XP (Steve: Saturday, February 10, 2007 at 3:46 pm)
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