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Just realised that Partition Magic doesn't work on Vista. What's a good program to use? I'm trying to creat a fresh primary partition to get a dual boot going.
you will also need need a 3rd party boot manager (BootStar, BootIt NG).
Today's subliminal thought is: 'Calm down ... it's only ones and zeros.'
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Right, I managed to partition the drive in Vista using the shrink drive thing, and then I installed Windows XP in the new partition. Now Vista won't load up. I had to put the OS menu in myself by editing the boot loader file in System (in XP). But when I choose Vista, the screen just goes black and it doesn't load.
In Disk Management, the drive with XP on has the status "boot" and the partition with Vista on has the status "system". Do they both have to be boot? If so, how do I change it?
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Maybe Vista Female version? LAMO a friend dared me to post that. And the friend is a girl so no offense to any females.
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i told you: "you will also need need a 3rd party boot manager"
the question of 'multi-boot' involving vista has been answered several times in this forum (it iss ESSENTIAL to install xp FIRST ... OR use a 3rd party boor manager) and guides are plenty, try google for starters.
Today's subliminal thought is: 'Calm down ... it's only ones and zeros.'
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Right... I've deleted the partition that XP was on. Vista still won't boot up. Any idea how to get back into it?
I might just delete the Vista partition and go back to XP...
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You don't need a 3rd party Boot Manager if you don't mind swapping drives int he bios each time.
I found Vista stuffs up the partition tables, as it uses a MBR that isn't compatible with XP.
So the way i got around it was to keep my already isntalled XP on one HD, then in the BIOS swap the other HD to bot first, which hides the XP patition, then install Vista and hey presto, no need for a boot loader and XP and Vista do not communciate at all thus no problems with files being overwritten.
It's then just a matter of switching in the BIOS which HD boots first anytime you want to change.
PS I run 2xSATA drives that are both by defauly master, no jumpers to change so i that was the easiest option. Whether that'll work with regular IDE HD's I can't comment
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