dule Booting

[Guest]

Will i be able to run Vista allong side Xp, i did try this with the Beta 2
but it corrupted and destroyed both installs....almost killed my hard drive.
made me sad.....please tell me if this is going to be a problem.

 

[David Sanders]

Will i be able to run Vista allong side Xp, i did try this with the Beta 2
but it corrupted and destroyed both installs....almost killed my hard drive.
made me sad.....please tell me if this is going to be a problem.

Works for me.

 

[Guest]

Hi,

You CAN run them side by side. The big trick is to first make sure XP is
stable. Then install RC1 onto a logical disk. I partitioned my 200 gb h/d
and installed RC1 on the new partition. I will admit, it took a few times to
get it right...read threads about dual installs and learn from them!

 

[Jim Pickering]

To use Vista's boot manager, you need to start setup by booting from the DVD
and place it on a partition that is at least 16 GB in size. After
installation, the boot manager can be edited using BCD or 3rd party tools,
such as VistaBoot Pro. http://www.vistabootpro.org/

Do not attempt it by inserting the DVD while Windows XP is running, only
from a reboot and select "Clean Install" and select the partition to place
it on.

 

[Rock]

Will i be able to run Vista allong side Xp, i did try this with the Beta 2
but it corrupted and destroyed both installs....almost killed my hard
drive.
made me sad.....please tell me if this is going to be a problem.

Dual boot, actually multi-boot, with three XP installations, and two Vista
installations of differing builds prior to Beta 2, have worked fine here.
Post Beta 2 one of the XP Pro w/ SP2 installations was upgraded to different
Vista releases. Right now I'm multi-booting with two XP installations, one
Vista RC1 that is an upgrade from an XP Pro w/SP2 installation, and one
Vista RC1 clean install. The second XP installation and the two Vista are
in separate volumes in an extended partition on the same drive. I have had
to use VistaBootPro to edit the Vista Boot loader when duplicate entries
showed up for the Vista installations but other than that every thing has
worked well.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

As long as you don't install Vista into the same folder (folder in this case
means partition) as XP you should get a normal boot options screen allowing
you to pick which OS to boot into. However, do not do this in a production
environment or on a primary home computer. It is pre-release software and
can (and did to me once) mess up the whole machine. It was my test box and
didn't hurt anything, but if you rely on this computer for your everyday
work and enjoyment, don't do it.

 

[Max]

Not exactly correct.
You can run setup for Vista from within XP, and as long as the proper
options are chosen, the result will not be different in a dual-boot
situation. With the exception that you will be able to retain your XP boot
drive letter assignment.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

There are several issues with your reply. Vista can be installed from
either an XP x86 (Vista x86 only) or XP x64 desktop (any edition of Vista).
Since all installations of Vista are clean installations whether you choose
upgrade or custom, there is no "Clean Install" option to select. The only
options are Upgrade and Custom. The difference is not how Vista is
installed but whether or not to retain files, settings, and applications
from the previous installation of Windows. Even then the retained software
is moved out of the area of the disk where Vista is installed and the
previous OS is simply wiped. After Vista is set up the rest of the software
is reinstalled. Perhaps it is best to forget all the common wisdom and
urban legends from experiences with previous versions of Windows and take a
close look at just how really really different Vista is.