how about if I bought a new drive for my notebook. Popped out the Vista
drive, installed the new drive and loaded xp. Then I would physically have
to remove and install the drive with the OS I need. Can this be done via usb
external drive??
"peter" <peter@nowhere.net> wrote in message
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> 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
>>
>>
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