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re: Dual boot Vista/XP Saturday, February 10, 2007 at 3:46 pm Posted by Steve (19683 messages posted) 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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Dual boot Vista/XP Sunday, February 11, 2007 at 8:30 pm 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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Dual boot Vista/XP Tuesday, February 13, 2007 at 8:13 am 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. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Dual boot Vista/XP Wednesday, February 14, 2007 at 3:08 pm 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! > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Vista Discussion Forum