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dual boot xp and vista
Name: roamingphantom Date: June 10, 2007 at 05:16:44 Pacific OS: XP PRO CPU/Ram: x2 4400 Product: me
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Hello all, I am considering dualbooting with xp and vista ultimate. My question is which should i install first and is there any special setup required.
Name: XpUser Date: June 10, 2007 at 05:38:17 Pacific
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The above link applied to adding XP after Vista. The link below is for adding Vista after XP (it's just one link - there are many available if you google for it)
If it does, Great! If it doesn't, consider yourself lucky that you have asked us the question. Otherwise you would be very frustrating to the point where you seriously want to throw the PC out the window.
i_XpUser
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Response Number 2
Name: upurz2 Date: June 10, 2007 at 06:34:29 Pacific
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FYI...
I didn't want to setup the traditional dual boot as I read some horror stories about it.
Whether they are true I don't know. Anyway I disconnected my XP drive and hooked up that drives cables to a new drive.
I then installed Vista to that drive. So now Vista is my C drive and XP is on IDE1 as a slave.
To boot into XP I use my BIOS setup screen to boot from it. All I need to do is press F8 at the initial BIOS boot screen to get a menu of bootable devices.
But to tell the truth I like Vista so much I might never have a need to go back into XP.
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Response Number 3
Name: XpUser Date: June 10, 2007 at 06:41:16 Pacific
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But to tell the truth I like Vista so much I might never have a need to go back into XP.
Of course Vista is for the lazy & the non-techies - With Vista you don't need to know as much as you do about fixing something that goes haywire in XP (to me it's fun and challenging)
i_XpUser
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Response Number 4
Name: Sabertooth Date: June 10, 2007 at 08:11:20 Pacific
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XpUser,
Two words ..... try Gentoo!
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Response Number 5
Name: XpUser Date: June 10, 2007 at 08:31:26 Pacific
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Someday I will ... out of sheer boredom - I guess :-)
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