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Old 10-29-2007, 03:37 PM   #1
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Dual Boot XP and Vista Walkthrough

Note- Vista has ability to manage and shrink partitions->Start->right click 'Computer"->manage->Disk Management->click drive (C)->shrink volume
If you have XP or need to partition a space bigger than Vista will allow, follow this walkthrough with MEPIS:

Step One

download Simply MEPIS 3.3 here:
http://iso.linuxquestions.org/mepis/
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Step Two (requires DVD/CD burner -/+ R/RW)

Burn it to CD/DVD as an ISO image

Vista's Default burner does not include ISO imaging software, It can be downloaded here:
32-bit version
64-bit version

Step Three

Boot from the CD drive, put Linux CD in drive and boot. It will run Simply MEPIS from the CD, but it will not install

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Step Four

Sign in as: root, password: root

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Step Five

Click on "Run QTParted"- that will open a box showing your partitions. The main Windows partition is usually /dev/hda1

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Step Six

Right click on your Windows partition, and choose RESIZE

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Step Seven

In the box labeled FREE SIZE AFTER, type the size (in MB) that you want the new partition to be. That will create free space.

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Step Eight

Right click on the free space, click on create

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Step Nine

Select partition type (NTFS or FAT32), click OK

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Step Ten

Click on file(top left), then commit- changes will take effect

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Step Eleven

Click close, then click on the K in the lower left of screen and logout, restart computer

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Step Twelve

remove CD and it will boot to windows, check your partitions.

Insert Vista OS to install on new partition
OR
For XP installation on new Partition, see page 2@ http://www.syschat.com/dual-boot-vis...eady-1946.html)
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Old 10-29-2007, 04:32 PM   #2
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The other tutorial link you posted at the bottom confuses me. It says to pick the drive with 100% on it, I have two for a start, and I dont have the option to shrink any of them. As for my main HD, when I do try and shrink it, it only lets me do it by 300mb and no more.

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Old 10-29-2007, 04:50 PM   #3
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I assume you already have vista, and are attempting to install xp as a dual boot-
You want approx a 40 GB partition for xp on your C drive (or just split it 50-50) then change that partition to D and your recovery to E. Install XP on D partition
use this walkthrough to partition your hard drive. When you have it partitioned and are ready to install xp on D partition click the bottom link for that walkthrough- but go to page 2, and start from there.
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all i did was install vista on 1 hd and xp on the other.

poof dual boot. nothing more nothing less.
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But it wont let me, it only lets me do 300mb, and there is no option to split it.
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I installed xp first on hd1, then vista on hd2.

then i booted and Vista said :

what o/s do you want to boot?

earlier version of windows

microsoft windows vista
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your hard drive is already partitioned. your primary partition is c. partition and format it. the reason you cant under vista is because it allocated space for things like restore/recovery/page file. partition it with mepis, let vista adjust itself to its new partition size and then install xp on the newly created partition.
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Oh I see. Sorry I am partially retarded.
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Sorry to be a pain in the side, but what do I have to do to uninstall Vista and just have XP on here? Is it the same process for any computer, or do I have to worry about some dell stuff? Also, if I do a complete system recovery, will it install Vista again?
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yes your recovery is vista.
put xp in, delete all partitions, format, reinstall
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