Hello. I'm wanting to install XP on my Vista machine so I can play games better on it later on. What do I need to do other than get a copy of XP to make it work? Do I just install them both and then boot whatever one I like when the computer starts up?
Have to install XP first, then Vista second. Vista will detect XP's presence, and install a bootloader that allows you to choose which OS you want to boot to.
If you just install XP while Vista is still installed, XP will overwrite Vista's bootloader, and you'll no longer be able to get into Vista.
and read the last two steps (or read everything if you want to dual boot with Vista already installed and want the ability to select both thru the bootloader)
Custom Alienware M9750 in progress
So far: 4gb Kingston Hyper X CL4 Memory Modules
Silver Palm rest from M9700
Atheros AR5008X Wireless N card
2x 320gb Western Digital Black Scorpio 7200rpm hard drives in RAID 0 = 640gb @ 14,400 RPM
I tried that one once, and it didn't work for me, but if you want to give it a shot, by all means. It'd definitely be easier (if it worked) than having to reinstall both XP AND Vista.
I tried that one once, and it didn't work for me, but if you want to give it a shot, by all means. It'd definitely be easier (if it worked) than having to reinstall both XP AND Vista.
That one worked for me. But then again, my Hard Drive doesn't have the Dell Diagnostic or the Media Direct partition. Could that be why it didn't work?
Custom Alienware M9750 in progress
So far: 4gb Kingston Hyper X CL4 Memory Modules
Silver Palm rest from M9700
Atheros AR5008X Wireless N card
2x 320gb Western Digital Black Scorpio 7200rpm hard drives in RAID 0 = 640gb @ 14,400 RPM
i have only an 80 gig hard drive on my computer but i have an external 500 gig harddrive can i install the vista onto the 500? to dual boot and can someone post a really good guide to dual booting on this forum? thanks!
DELL XPS M1710? 2gigs ram/ t7400 2.16 ghz dual core/ 7950 gtx go/ windows xp pro 32
Mine doesn't have those either, when I tried it, it was on my desktop (I've since exiled Vista from my desktop). I don't worry about it anymore now that I've got two seperate M1710's, one for Vista, one for XP.
If you reformat your hard drive, follow prompts to install, then partition drive in half and install xp., then put vista in and follow the prompts to install vista in the 2nd partition.
There is an easier way though to create a 2nd partition from within XP, and install Vista, and the software to do it is free, and includes a walkthrough. Step One
Not quite correct - I have installed XP on an external HDD, and booted from it, you need to ensure the internal HDD is removed and boot from the disk.
The problem with this is its sloooooooooooow not recommended at all, I tried only because I needed to fix a HDD which was an IDE and could not figure out a way of doing this without trying to install it on an external HDD.
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