My Dual Boot answer

Hi all,

Dell Vostro 1700 2 internal hds Vist ultimate.

Follow the tutorial as it is fine. however you will need to make some changes first.
First go into bios ad under onboard devices and turn off FLASH CACHE MODULE.
Then SATA OPeration set it to ATA.
reboot. This will allow XP to see the dirves.
Install XP and chage the boot settins as in the tutorial.

Boot into XP and download all onbord equipment drivers for XP and install them. ie.Video, network, bluetooth, wireles the list goes on.

You will have to download them under Vista as xp network will not work untill the driver is installed.

One other if you want to install it on the second h, as i did, make sure the partitionis not dynamic, it needs to be basic for xp to see the new partition on this drive. To do this you will need to deleate the drives partiton and convert it to basic. Obvouisly you will need to back up before you delete the partition. Do not use Vista's backup/Restore. I did and when I tried to restore, it could not find the backup file, but that might be my fault as I moved it from thr drive I was going to use.

good luck Clive.