Dual boot again

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I have a laptop with vista home premium on it. Whayt I should have got is on
with xp and upgraded later. I want to be able to put xp on as dual boot as I
two bit's of hardware that won't work with vista and no determined time of
new drivers yet.

Problem is vista that came with laptop is a ghost like disk so will only
take me back to step 1 and wipe out any win xp I may install.

I need to be able to install xp after vista but i think this wipes the vista
boot record so will not work. Is there anyway round this so I can put xp on
after vista is already on.
 
Vista needs a partition and XP needs a partition - you need two partitions
in order to dual boot. If the OEM procedure has no repair option and does
not respect a second partition - wipes it out - then you'd need to boot your
laptop from an external hard drive to dual boot, I think. When you set up
a second partition, will the OEM install put Vista in just one of the two?
 
The laptop already has three partitions. The 3rd one has nothing on it so
this iswhere I would put xp. The main prob is that because of the oem setup
the disk says it may flatten all disks connected including sd cards
 
Hi iceeagle

I take it I run this in xp once my vista has been killed and then add the
vista partition?

Cheers
 
The process for installing XP after Vista involves the using the Vista DVD
to repair the XP installation having changed the boot. Does oem setup
offer a repair option? If so, you can use the procedure CZ worked out for
installing XP after Vista. If not, you ought to be able to get a boot manager
to hide the Vista partition during the XP install, and use the boot manager
to choose between booting XP or Vista. The boot manager I'm familiar
with is BootItNG, http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/ which has a pretty
steep learning curve. It should be able to do this, but it wouldn't be easy.
 
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