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dual boot xp pro & vista
Even if its retail and its ok with the EULA, many things might mess this up.. since xp might just give you a blue screen or struggle trying to load onto the new hardware.. It might work but it might not. You will need to activate again.... anyway... if you have xp on a second disk you can boot the vista dvd,

Need advice on setting up a dual boot vista / xp?
This is my problem: I have installed Vista on my C:\ disk. After that I installed XP on D:\ disk. Now I can't boot Vista anymore. I tried with boot.ini [boot loader] timeout=5 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(0)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows

license question for a dual-boot (Vista/XP) setup
Colin, He's not in a dual boot situation so each drive is individual. You would have to do this if Vista was the boot manager. Don, Choose which ever OS you want to boot first. For me it's Vista. It's running nice and smooth with SP1. Have fun. -- Lance Frca {497083/1008563} MVP Shell/User www.zardoc.com XP-Vista

Dual boot Windows XP oraz Vista a kwestia uprawnień do katalogw
Bert Kinney b...@NSmvps.org microsoft public windows vista general Hi Paul, Dual Booting Windows Vista & Windows XP: Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User http://bertk.mvps.org Member: http://dts-l.org paul wrote: I want to install XP on my Vista machine but I hear this can cause problems with the boot loader.

Duel Boot XP & Vista
And following the link to http://apcmag.com/5485/dualbooting_vista_and_xp#restoring , we have: "Restoring Vista and dual booting "Because you can't use the Windows XP bootloader to boot Vista, we have to reinstate Vista's bootloader to the MBR and configure it to manage both operating systems.

windows vista XP dual boot
This is my problem: I have installed Vista on my C:\ disk. After that I installed XP on D:\ disk. Now I can't boot Vista anymore. I tried with boot.ini Snipped.... I've read that there's a program called bcdedit.exe. I tried to make that one work on XP, but I failed. That's because Bcedit.exe is a Vista program.

vista xp dual boot tip
DoN. Nichols dnich...@d-and-d.com rec crafts metalworking On 2008-01-12, Dave Hinz <DaveH...@gmail.com> wrote: On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 08:58:13 -0500, Karl Townsend <karltownsend....@embarqmail.com> wrote: Sense this thread had turned into an OS rant, I'll add mine. I don't understand all the hubbub over Linix.

Installed Vista dual boot, think I screwed up!
I've got them as dual boot here, have done for the last few months, they haven't done anything of the sort. OK if you're in XP and select the Vista partition in disk manager and format it then yes the user is capable of destroying the other OS. But how is Windows itself capable of destroying it on its own?

OT dual boot Vista and XP
DoN. Nichols dnich...@d-and-d.com rec crafts metalworking On 2008-01-11, F George McDuffee <gmcduf...@mcduffee-associates.us> wrote: On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:02:23 -0500, "Wild_Bill" <wb_wildb...@XSPAMyahoo.com> wrote: Thanks for the linux tip, Ig. Ubuntu is one or two of the new discs I have on hand,

Need advice on setting up a dual boot vista / xp?
Andy C nospamfor...@thanks.com microsoft public windows vista general I have installed vista on a seperate hard disk. I have XP on another disk. Is there a way to get both OS's onto one hard disk and to dual boot? Sandy.

Dual boot Windows XP oraz Vista a kwestia uprawnie ń do katalogw
I'm beginning to think that Vista is more trouble than it's worth! No, it's just you're not up to it. How do you arrive at that conclusion? Without any warning or reason, the drivers for the network adapter have gone, in between booting to Vista and back again to XP. The driver wizard fails to recognize the drivers

Dual boot Vista modifying XP registry?
The solution is to use a 3ed party boot manager such as BootIt NG to hide partitions. The following link will provide information on how to perform this. Dual Booting Windows Vista & Windows XP: http://bertk.mvps.org/html/dualboot.html Thanks very much Bert! I have a couple more questions (if you don't mind).

windows vista XP dual boot
overwriting the Vista startup files there. 3. Boot from the Vista DVD-ROM and Repair the startup files, creating the dual-boot menu. Sorry this got so long, xp-vista-xp. It's really quite simple - until we try to explain it without leaving out something important. :^{ RC -- RC White, CPA San Marcos,

dual boot vista xp ?
Larry Jaques novalidaddress@di\/ersify.com rec crafts metalworking On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 21:14:12 -0800, with neither quill nor qualm, Gunner <gun...@NOSPAM.lightspeed.net> quickly quoth: On 13 Jan 2008 03:26:21 GMT, "DoN. Nichols" <dnich...@d-and-d.com> wrote: On 2008-01-12, Gunner <gun...@NOSPAM.lightspeed.net>

format vista to xp, OR partition vista, dual boot with xp?
I had to dual boot a friend's new laptop that shipped with Vista (He needed XP because some of his external audio devices doesn't have vista drivers). I partitioned his hard drive, installed XP on the 2nd partition and installed Vistaboot pro because I had lost the ability to boot into Vista after installing XP.

Installed Vista dual boot, think I screwed up!
Hi, I have dual booted my PC with MCE2005 on the C Drive and Vista (5308) on the D Drive. I did something rather stupid and cannot get XP to work now as the display has been set to a ridiclus resolution. I cannot boot into safe mode and better still Enable VGA mode as the "F8" option is not available on the XP

dual boot vista xp ?
I have 2 hard drives installed in my system on for vista and the other for xp this has worked perfict for 6 months now now i this vista has change the permisions for my xp install I can boot in to vista just fine and see the xp drive all files and directories even the winnt directory with the subs but now when i

OT dual boot Vista and XP
Pegasus \(MVP\) I....@fly.com microsoft public windowsxp general If you require a good answer then you need to take the time to describe your system in some detail.

Dual Boot - - XP with 98SE, or Vista with 98SE
Niksa Franceschi nfran...@tp1.irb.hr hr comp os winnt lhaymehr wrote: Vista ima novi bott manager. Obratno reinstaliraj. XP pa Vista. WTF? Stvarno genijalan savjet :))) Ima toolova za 'kreirati' Vista boot loader ...

ActiveSync ruined my dual-boot - how to restore Vista boot order?
I used to have a dual-boot PC and for games that don't depend on registry settings, I often ran those from same directory in each OS separately. Besides that 32bit drivers do not work under 64bit Windows (no matter if XP or Vista) even most Windowsxp x64 drivers cause malfunctions and instability when forced to