Dual boot with Vista

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Hello all I need help. I have an HDD partitioned with Vista on (c) & XP on
(D) The PC will not give me the dual boot option. I've tried to fix the mbr
in xp. I've even tried to swith witch partition I put the 2 OS'S on, with no
luck can anyone help me please.
 
Hello all I need help. I have an HDD partitioned with Vista on (c) & XP on
(D) The PC will not give me the dual boot option. I've tried to fix the mbr
in xp. I've even tried to swith witch partition I put the 2 OS'S on, with no
luck can anyone help me please.
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Try VistaBootPro.
 
You do not specify the proceedure in installing the OSs. XP should be
installed first followed by installing Vista from within XP.

VistaBootPro is good recommendation.
 
Thanks all. I'll reformatt & install XP on C & Vista on D. I'll reply with
the out come.
 
You can do that, but later if you decide to remove XP you are going to
regret it. You should install XP on D first, then install Vista on C. Both
should be primary partitions and format the Vista partition when you install
(advanced button)
..
 
Lil said:
Hello all I need help. I have an HDD partitioned with Vista on (c) & XP on
(D) The PC will not give me the dual boot option. I've tried to fix the mbr
in xp. I've even tried to swith witch partition I put the 2 OS'S on, with no
luck can anyone help me please.
Click to expand...


The older OS should be installed first; otherwise, you'll have trouble
creating a dual-boot scenario without using 3rd-party products.

However, dual-booting is no longer necessary in most situations.

Why not download a Virtual Machine application, such as Microsoft's
VirtualPC 2007 (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.asp?) or
Innotek's VirtualBox (http://www.virtualbox.org/) and run WinXP and your
legacy applications within a virtual computer. Both are free and work
with Vista. (Microsoft does not support the use of VirtualPC 2007 on
Vista Home editions, but several people have reported that it works just
fine.)


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