Vista is a different animal from XP...........if you have Vista installed
and wish to setup a dual boot I suggest you buy another Hard drive and hook
it up.
Then disconnect the drive that Vista is on and install XP onto the new
drive.This way you have 2 seperate OS installations that will not interfere
with one another.
You get to chose which one to boot from by means of the BIOS...some BIOS
have the ability to let you chose during boot by means of an F key....others
you will need to change the boot order by actually entering the BIOS and
setting the approbriate drive as 1st boot.This way is the easiest ti undo
when you decide not to dual boot anymore...just remove/format the other
drive.
The "normal" way would require you to either create a new partition for XP
or buy another drive....then install XP onto that partition/drive.This will
destroy the Vista bootloader on the original drive and only XP will boot.At
which point you would need to boot with your Vista DVD and do a "startup
repair" which would see the XP installation and create the required file
changes to create a dual boot.This would give you a choice screen when
booting.
here is a link explaining this in more detail
http://www.pro-networks.org/forum/about88231.html
peter
"Pete C." <pcorrao@optonline.net> wrote in message
news:eQhJDm21HHA.2064@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to create a dual boot laptop that gives me a choice of
> which OS I want to load. I still have programs that only work with XP. Any
> help would be appreciated!!!
>
> Or if someone knows a better way to use both XP or Vista...
>
> Thanks..Pete
>
>