re: Dual boot Vista/XP Tuesday, February 13, 2007 at 8:13 am Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Groober (5 messages posted) I have found the dual booting is possible, just use your partition manager to leave some unallocated disk space, then let the Vista installation routine create the partition and format the volume. I have found some difficulties in trying to use a secondary disk to boot vista from, just be warned. Also, another warning, vista changes the master boot record on the hard drive and installs it's own boot loader that can be manipulated either by bcdedit from Vista or by using a gui utility called vistaboot available from http://www.vistaboot.org. To revert to the Windows xp boot system is a bit of an interesting process. Have fun! On Saturday, February 10, 2007 at 3:28 pm, JPWildman wrote: >Hi, > >I have a Dell XPS 410 system running Windows XP MCE. If possible I would like to >keep XP and install Vista on a second partition for certain reasons. Would that work >or not? If so, how would I do that? I already tried making another partition with >Partition Magic 8 but it wouldn't let me (I assume because of the Dell "hidden" partition >for recovery). Any help would be appreciated. Written in response to: Dual boot Vista/XP (JPWildman: Saturday, February 10, 2007 at 3:28 pm) Responses to this message: re: Dual boot Vista/XP (Larry: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 at 3:08 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Dual boot Vista/XP (JPWildman: Sat, Feb 10, 2007, 3:28 pm) re: Dual boot Vista/XP (Steve: Sat, Feb 10, 2007, 3:46 pm) re: Dual boot Vista/XP (jabronne: Sun, Feb 11, 2007, 8:30 pm) re: Dual boot Vista/XP (Groober: Tue, Feb 13, 2007, 8:13 am) re: Dual boot Vista/XP (Larry: Wed, Feb 14, 2007, 3:08 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Vista Discussion Forum