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Dual booting w/ Xp and Vista on same HD

post #1 of 7
2/3/07 at 2:39pm
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I hear you can choose either Xp or Vista to boot into. However you need the real vista not the dell upgrade. How do you guyd think this would work. Do you think it would be hours of painstaking installing and troubleshooting??? Im skeptical on dual booting right now because Vista is so new it might not be worth dual booting until they release some updates for Vista to clear some the compability issues............let me know your thoughts thanks
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post #2 of 7
2/3/07 at 3:14pm
It works great on the same harddrive and every reboot you can chose either xp or vista.

I couldnt get it to work on a second internal drive and so just use the second drive for data

So far there has been no negatives with vista other than gettin used to where things are. I can see me dumping XP entirely soon. Very happy.
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post #3 of 7
2/3/07 at 4:31pm
there is a new vista thread here

http://www.notebookforums.com/forum289.html

with lots of good info
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post #4 of 7
2/24/07 at 2:30pm
Okay my new AW M5790 is comming with vista installed, i want to dual boot with XP, i know how to Dual boot with XP installed and Vista on a disc would it be any different to install windows xp with Vista already on your system?
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post #5 of 7
2/26/07 at 4:25pm
So can you Dual Boot vista and xp without having to partition the hard drive?
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post #6 of 7
3/4/07 at 9:01am
no, you need to partition the drive...

If you install XP onto a machine with Vista already installed, Vistas boot files will be overwritten.To fix this, just install and run VistaBootPro (its free). It scans for OS installs, and adds a boot menu option for each OS....simple!

If you install Vista onto a machine with XP on it, you dont have to do anything, Vista will add the boot menu.
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post #7 of 7
3/4/07 at 10:24am
cheers for the reply bud
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