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Dual Boot Preinstalled XP and Vista

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Name: Tautitan
Date: November 19, 2006 at 12:29:54 Pacific
OS: WinXp Pro x64
CPU/Ram: AMD 64 3200+ / 1GB PC3200
Product: N/A
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Hi

Is it possible to dual boot between the pre-installed version of XP on my laptop and Vista? If anyone has any good links or tips I would be very thankful.


Matt

admin@webgrafix.co.uk


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Name: Outlander
Date: November 19, 2006 at 12:32:55 Pacific
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Name: Outlander
Date: November 19, 2006 at 12:34:13 Pacific
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Name: jam
Date: November 19, 2006 at 12:57:50 Pacific
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Search for a free boot loader such as GAG or GRUB.


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Response Number 4
Name: Sabertooth
Date: November 19, 2006 at 13:14:27 Pacific
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Dual booting Vista & XP is as straight forward as it gets, especially since you already have XP installed.

Just boot from your Vista DVD and install Vista (most preferably) on a separate partition or change your XP directory from Windows to WinXP because Vista will chuck it as Windows.old while loading itself.


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Name: jam
Date: November 19, 2006 at 15:52:38 Pacific
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Guess I misinterpreted the question. XP is already installed but Vista is not?

I would just boot into XP, pop in the Vista DVD, select 'Advanced', then make sure it installs into a different partition...the dual booting will be automatic.

May I ask why you're running XP x64?


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Response Number 6
Name: Tautitan
Date: November 20, 2006 at 07:03:06 Pacific
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I am running XPx64 on my PC as it is supposedly more stable than 32 bit XP and I haven't had any reason to argue. And thanks for all the replies, now I can have both and not have to worry about dreaded incompatibilities. Should be easy enough too because my laptop came with 2 partitions (as well as the recovery one).

Matt

admin@webgrafix.co.uk

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Response Number 7
Name: rdmart
Date: February 16, 2007 at 09:42:51 Pacific
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I have using Osl 2000 and have had no problems Dual booting Vista and Two Xppros on 2 computers one with a raid array.


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