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Vista & XP Dual Boot
Hi, I just got a E520 with Vista installed. Everything is fine untill I tried some of my not so really old games. I would like to keeps Vista in the system so I was wondering if anyone tried a dual boot system with Vista and XP. I am thinking about adding another hard drive in the system, so I can keep Vista intalled on one and install XP on the other one. Any comments or suggestion would be really appreciated. Thanks.
- The second hard drive is a good method, just be sure the Vista drive is unplugged during the XP install, would not want to format the Vista drive by accident. Use a different sata port to connect the XP drive, do not use the one you unplugged from the Vista drive.after XP install is done, connect the Vista drive, and boot into Vista and use this utility to get the dual boot going. http://www.vistabootpro.org/http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dime520/en/SM_EN/parts.htm#wp1211782 scroll down to "adding a second hard drive"
- Hi shen318 & jcoaneWhen you dual boot XP & Vista XP will delete your restore points in Vista XP thinks they are invalidand puff they are gone , but Vista does not remove XP restore points i though i would let you know that if you did not know it.Check it out and see for yourself there is a work around if you can find it i never tried to find it because i do not dual boot any more.See Yea.
- Ok I must have done something wrong. I have Vista 32 bit.on my C drive, and booted my original system restore disk to the d drive, however after the XP install, my computer would only boot to XP and not vista. Any ideas what I did wrong??Also since upgrading to vista on my dimension 8400 I now have no sound at all. anyone else have this issue or am i just the chosen one??TIA.
Message Edited by Da Guch on 06-04-2007 03:56 PM - Ok, from what I've read so far when you install XP after Vista it will rewrite the Boot Loader to run XP only. You need to reconfig the Vista boot loader and it's not easy as edit boot.ini like in XP. There are some free software I found to help you with that. Check the link I listed above they have really good instruction on setting up a dual boot system. I am going to give it a try this weekend.
- i downloaded that to the vista drive,but didnt understand what the heck that is. Too complicated. Can you break it down for me 1 time.(sounds like a dance move). couple of queestions. 1. How and when do I reinstall the XP drive. 2. Do i do it through the software you mentioned? 3. Can I use my recovery CD to intall XP or do I need a seperate version? TIA
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Posted June 4th, 2007 01:00