I have a getway GT5404 with windows vista. I have tryed to get xp on it but it just wont work. I followed the steps in here but still not working. I put in the xp cd and reboot the cd starts and starts loading files then it says windows now starting screen goes blank the i get error. i have 2 hard drives hooked up to computer one is 250 GB and one is 320GB. any ideas?

Thanks Todd

Should not matter which drive you install the OSs on.

If I'm right what you want is 2 OSs on 2 HDs

If you already have vista set up then what you need to do is make sure its not un upgrade version.

This is kinda of backwards project. HD A=250gb DH B=320GB

On HD A you have Vista
ON HD B u need XP

It sounds like you are having trouble with the xp cd and not the hardware.

If thats the case proceed with this:

Once you get XP to install finish the set up. At this point XP is the only thing that will boot without Vista. Once you have XP set up and squared away.

Get you XP disk out and load in into Recovery Console with Vista and Choose the option to fix you boot file.

Once that is done Vista will load and all you have to do then is Download VistaBootPRO and let it run over all drives. (you can find more info on this prog else where) Then restart your PC and you should have Vista Boot Manager with XP and Vista.

Cd Was Bad But Thanks For Your Help I Got It All Up And Running Now Works Great.


Thanks Todd