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Dual boot Vista & XP
Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin] andre...@hotmail.com microsoft public windows vista general Dual Boot Vista with XP installed first: http://apcmag.com/5023/dual_booting_xp_with_vista Dual Boot XP with Vista installed first: http://apcmag.com/5485/dualbooting_vista_and_xp -- Andre Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com My

Installed Vista dual boot, think I screwed up!
philo ph...@privacy.net microsoft public windows vista general "Andy C" <nospamfor...@thanks.com> wrote in message news:9WNfj.36016$Hc3.18932@newsfe1-gui. ntli.net... 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?

format vista to xp, OR partition vista, dual boot with xp?
Ale od razu informuje, ze nie jestem znawca tematu i tylko opisuje swoje przygody :-) Owszem, ale szyfrowanie, a prawa NTFS to jednak trochę coś innego. :) W XP Pro wbudowano współdzielenie plików przy użyciu EFS, ale nijak to się ma do Windows Vista Home Premium i nie da się tego wykorzystać. Piciu.

Should I use 64 bit Windows XP?
I tried to do this using Virtual PC in Vista--but the whole thing was just too slow. So, I installed XP Professional on a slave hard drive. Afterwards, I followed some directions I found to create a dual boot menu here: http://windowssecrets.com/2008/02/14/01-Make-your-computer-dual-boot-Vista-and-XP Everything

Dual Boot Vista & Windows XP
As a home computer builder, I recently purchased an OEM version of Vista Home Premium that I plan to install as a dual boot operating system with Windows XP Pro. I ran the Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor 1.0, which indicated that the Tekram SCSI controller (Tekram DC-395U/UW/F, DC-315/U or DC-305I/E PCI Ultra SCSI

Dual-boot XP-Vista
John: I just used Disk Probe via XP Pro and regedit in Vista SP1 on my dual boot computer to confirm the data value and its location in the MBR and in Vista's My previous test (and post): David: I did some testing to see if Vista does change the MBR. On a Vista/Win XP dual boot computer, I ran fdisk /mbr from a

Dual booting Vista Ultimate 64 bit with XP Pro
Partition Magic installs OK on Vista but any attempt to actually use it results in catastrophic failure. What OSes? If they're all Windows then the Windows Bootloader should handle it. XP Pro SP2 and Vista. As indicated in the other reply, both OS's are installed on the same disk, and when one is active the other

delete xp in dual boot
Have you tried it with Vista? Yes. I tried Suse Linux 10 on a dual boot XP/Vista machine and it FUBAR'd the Vista boot manager, which is different from the XP one. I had to fixboot from a Windows CD to get Windows back to being bootable, which of course FUBAR'd the Linux bit so that wouldn't boot.

Can't dual boot Vista Home Premium & Win XP Pro
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 from separate drives
algae garybo...@gmail.com microsoft public windows vista general I have just about finished setting up, tweaking, etc. a new Vista pc. I would like to ( for a short time ) set it up so that my xp installation is still available should I run into any unforseen software issues. The XP installation is on another pc so

Dual Boot Vista and XP - Partition Magic not compatible with ...
So -- I just recently got a Mac Mini (tiny little box with a dual-core Intel processor, 80 GB of internal disk, and 1GB of RAM), and am using it for such purposes. It is built around unix, and while it took a while to find my way around some of the weird things which they did, I am now able to log into it over the

MUltiboot Vista / XP
Planning to build a new system in the near future and would like to run both Vista & Windows XP Pro in a dual boot configuration. Is it best to install the OS's on two separate hard drives and what about the application programs? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Jim.

Dual boot WinXP+Vista
steve hall stev...@msn.com microsoft public windows vista installation_setup 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

Dual-Boot Issue; XP Pro ---> Vista
Hi Milhouse-- Dual Boot Instructions for XP and Vista Dual Boot http://apcmag.com/5023/dual_booting_xp_with_vista Yes, I've seen that. 1) Drive letters flip if and when you install Vista from a restart. They would not change if you run the Vista setup from XP which is easy to do and Yes, that's why I'm doing Step 3

Dual Boot/Dual HDD
nriz...@gmail.com 24hoursupport helpdesk The boot problem is fixed. I used EasyBCD boot manager to add Windows XP to the boot menu. So now I am able to boot the system with both OS.

problem with dual boot
I want to put both OS's HDD's into the same case and have bios boot to a floppy first, then have some words on the floppy instructing either the Vista or XP to boot, but I am clueless as to what those words might be (although I suspect they might begin with @ECHO OFF). Google" dual boot vista xp Gets this as one

Dual boot Vista over XP problem.
Mrs. Phist didn't want Vista, and about that she was quite firm. If Vista was on the Laptop it would have to be "upgraded" to XP/Linux dual boot. The salesman we spoke to in Furure Shop couldn't offer anything but Vista computers, and let slip that the #1 reason for laptop returns right now is the lack of XP

Dual booting Vista Ultimate 64 bit with XP Pro
Beyond telling which hard drive will get control for booting, the Hard Drive Boot Order also defines the meaning of "x" in "rdisk(x)" in the boot.ini boot menu file used by the WinNT/2K/XP family of OSes. That is, "rdisk(0)" specifies the hard drive at the head of the list, "rdisk(1)" specifies the next hard drive,

Dual boot Vista with XP Pro?
If you don't have dual boot, it usually means that the Vista installation did not see your XP drive (was it unplugged?) if so that's just fine. You should be able to boot from bios to the drive you want. Go to your bios and set XP hd as first boot. That means, if you don't touch anything XP will boot first.

dual boot vista + xp
Should I use the program to install XP or just directly install it in Ultimat? Thanks. It is incorrect that "Vista does not allow dual boot". You can dual-boot Vista and another operating system. However, there are issues with XP wiping out Vista's System Restore points if you don't use a third-party boot loader