Dual Boot Vista and XP with Vista already installed

If you want to install Vista onto an XP computer, try the reverse tutorial: (XP already installed)
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had a few probs with the dos commands but on double check I must have been typpppinnnggg wrong.
Great Work

Nangialai:
Drivers have to be installed on each OS on your drive... you cannot "redirect" them, this does not exist.

Hello,

i followed your 4 step tutorial and was doing great until i got to step 3.

i have a brand new HP Compaq laptop that came with windows vista home premium and no disk, only the preinstalled backup drive for vista.

-AMD Turion (64x2) Mobile Technology TL-50
-1.61 GHz
-NVidia Geforce Go 6150
-1 gig ram
-no floppy 2.5 drive
-DVD/CD burner

when i got to step 3, i have no disk to load the original boot loader.
windows xp (E:\) will load perfect. no problems but far as it is concerned i have no vista or (C:\) drive at all. i dont know where to go from here. i see all these messages about using some kind of bootfix software but when it comes to that i am lost, no idea what to use...if i should try or not...or where to go from here.
Any help u can give would be appreciated. thanks

Colecat7


ps...thought i would post that the only way i could find to fix my xp vista not loading problem as above was i installed vistabootpro Windows Vista Support and News - PROnetworks Technology and did the bootload and added the information for windows to see both drives and it works great now....i can dual boot and using xp online once i find the driver for my hp. thanks for all the posts to help me find what i needed.

THANK YOU!!!

Hi ya problem when i have tried to install XP it gets to the bit ware you choose the drives to install it on and my new drive is not there you can only see the C: drive it has been shrunk but you cant see the X: drive thats what i called it
do i need to make the new drive active as when i go to do this it advises me that it may crash out the pc

please help

Tony

Hi Ya

i shrunk my vista drive and now have an x: drive however when i try to install XP i get to the screen were i should be able to see the x: drive but it isnt there there is only the c: drive which has shrunk in size but does not show the extra drive can you help please

Tony

you will need to supply more information. How did you resize your C: partition, with what program? Did you create a new partition on the 'x:' partition, eg format it with any file system?

hi,

having the same problem as one of the previous posts settting up the bcdedit keep getting error messages

if i run bcdedit it tells me that my bootmanager is in partition F: (the drive with xp on it )

Windows Boot Manager
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Identifier {bootmgr}
device partition F:
default {current}
Despalyorder {current}
Timeout 30

Windows Boot Loader
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IDentifier {Current}
Device Partition C:
Path windows\system32\winload.exe
description windows vista (tm)
os device partiton=C:
systemroot \windows



the vista is on drive C: the Xp is on drive F:

any help with thanks !

I used vista to shrink the drive and vista quick format

NTFS Vista can see both C: and my new X: drive its just XP that cant see the x: drive

the drive labelling will be different under XP, it will not be labelled x:
Do you have XP and Vista on the same partition? This is a big no-no.