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WP-Pro on an XPS M1530

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9/6/09 at 8:54pm
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I already did this once with a lot of help from this forum, but I wiped the drive and started from scratch. This is on another brand new XPS M1530 and this time I would like to leave the Vista boot loader partition (?) intact but install XP-Pro in such a way that it will always boot to XP_Pro. As if Vista wasn't even there anymore. Is this practical? Advised? Alternative suggestions?
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post #2 of 4
9/7/09 at 4:27am
Meaning dual-boot? Or just keeping the boot loader - this I am not sure if it will work out.

As far as always booting into XP on a dual-boot machine, it can be done.

cheers ...
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post #3 of 4
9/7/09 at 3:54pm
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XP on a Vista XPS M1530

This is for a friend who just wants to keep the option of restoring Vista some day, but wants XP to be the default OS without having to "choose" it on each boot-up.




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Meaning dual-boot? Or just keeping the boot loader - this I am not sure if it will work out.

As far as always booting into XP on a dual-boot machine, it can be done.

cheers ...
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post #4 of 4
9/7/09 at 4:49pm
I think the program I used was Easy BCD it allows you to edit the Vista Boot manager, and if I recall selcet the XP os to Boot by default
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