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This is the best tut. I've seen!!!!!!!!

Thanks for taking the time!!!

Bill

I have just purchase a new Gateway Computer with Vista, I was told that I might be able to take my hard drive from my old Gateway and install it in the new one, the old computer has XP on it. Is this possible?

What would be the process for this but using 2 separate physical drives.

I have 1 sata drive all setup with XP. I would like to purchase another sata drive and install Vista on that drive.

Should i physically swap them, or is it possible to have both drives hooked up and pick the OS to load at boot up?

thank you

hi!
just can't thank you enough for preparing this nice tutorial.a very good job.

Thanks for the tutorial. I have an issue and looking for help. I have XP Pro installed on a 40 GB disk on a laptop (IBM think pad T43). There is also one other thing that may be important but do not know. My XP installation has a disk encryption loaded on "safeboot" . I use partition magic 8 to resize the partition to 15 GB that has XP installed. I verify that XP still boots fine after the resizing is complete. While in XP I use Disk Management to create a new partition (name vista,D:\, NTFS, Primary, quick format, ~18GB). I then restart XP, still works. I start the vista install, boot from DVD (OEM version of Business), select install now, custom install, select disk named vista (18GB, D:\) and start getting the normal install stuff. I never get to point where the bootloader shows both "earlier version of windows" and Vista. Vista installs and low and behold when vista starts up (loads great), the vista install renames the 18GB drive to Vista, c:\ - completely erasing my XP stuff. I have tried this on a desktop, dual boot works fine (so I know the procedure works). Thanks for your help...

almostvistafan

your xp partition is likely still there. The drive labels (C:\) are relative to each OS. XP would say that it's OS drive is C, and vista is D perhaps, while Vista would inform you of the reverse. Since applications do not (in general) work across OSs, the naming convention is of little concern

A key thing to note is that it lists the drive as 18GB which is a good sign that the other partition is there, just potentially invisible.
*Or are you able to see the 2nd partition?

there are a couple things i would suggest:
http://www.syschat.com/dual-boot-vis...6.html?garpg=4
steps 3 and 4 of this tutorial.

Thanks. I still see the XP partition, but it shows all the space is available for that partition. I thought since it has formatted NTFS that vista would/should show at least contents (space used for XP). I do not even see the the bootloader screen to select which OS to load. This is the reason I thought the XP data was erased. Is it as simple as editing my vista bootloader to redirect the xp to use the new drive name?

Thanks again.

Hello, I separately installed XP and Vista on HD1 in partition 1, activated, and created Norton Ghost images. I did this because I didn't think MS provided a way to dual boot them. I've followed each of your well written tutorials for XP/Vista and Vista/XP installation order. Neither one works. With XP/Vista, XP won't boot and Vista says it's missing some files (see below). With Vista/XP loaded Vista works fine, but XP won't boot at all and my machine reboots too.
I'd appreciate any suggestions.


Vista Messages:

The procedure entry point SdbGetAppCompatDatasize could not be located in the dynamic link library apphelp.dll
Error loading C:\Windows\system32\mscories.dll
The specified module could not be found.
IE Per User Initialization Utility has stopped working.
User profile wasnot loaded correctly. You have been logged on with a temporary profile.
Changes made will be lost when logging off.