re: Dual boot Vista/XP
Wednesday, February 14, 2007 at 3:08 pm
Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Larry
(98 messages posted)
With the beta, I successfully installed Vista in a dual-boot configuration, on two
different partitions. I did not have any of the problems that have been described
on this forum. However, I was less than satisfied with the features and resource
demands of Vista, so I deleted and formated the Vista partition and then repaired
my boot record. The process of repairing the boot record has many steps, as follows:
You will need to boot up with your WinXP CD and follow these steps:
Choose the 'Repair' an existing installation.
You will be asked to choose which windows installation you want to repair(the WinXP
Recovery Console will see both the Xp and Vista installations)
Choose the XP installation.
Type in your Administrator password.
Follow these steps:
1) Type FIXBOOT, answer (Y)es
2) CD \, press enter.(this takes you to the root drive)
Type and enter thes commands on at a time:
3) ATTRIB -H NTLDR
4) ATTRIB -S NTLDR
5) ATTRIB -R NTLDR
6) ATTRIB -H NTDETECT.COM
7) ATTRIB -S NTDETECT.COM
8) ATTRIB -R NTDETECT.COM
In steps 9 and 10, X is the letter of your CD-Rom drive.
9) COPY X:\I386\NTLDR C:\
10) COPY X:\I386\NTDETECT.COM C:\
Answer yes each time the computer asks to overwrite the existing file. Type EXIT
to close
the Repair Console and reboot your computer.
On Tuesday, February 13, 2007 at 8:13 am, Groober wrote:
>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!
>
>
>
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- re: Dual boot Vista/XP (Groober: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 at 8:13 am)
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