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Old 06-15-2006   #1 (permalink)
pm32611
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Dumm question from Newbie, about Mutli-boot

I have searched, but I guess in all the wrong places. I am right now
downloading Vista, which will be installed on a secondary hard drive. I want
to set up so that I can still boot to XP, if desired. Somebody show me what
is staring me in the face, because I just cant see it.

Thanks

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Old 06-16-2006   #2 (permalink)
Mike Lowery
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Re: Dumm question from Newbie, about Mutli-boot


"pm32611" <pm32611@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:32B46279-EC4B-4D02-A9ED-11D36B476790@microsoft.com...
>I have searched, but I guess in all the wrong places. I am right now
> downloading Vista, which will be installed on a secondary hard drive. I want
> to set up so that I can still boot to XP, if desired. Somebody show me what
> is staring me in the face, because I just cant see it.


Vista supports this with a new boot loader. I've got XP, 2003, and Vista all
loaded on one partition and it works fine.


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Old 06-16-2006   #3 (permalink)
pm32611
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Re: Dumm question from Newbie, about Mutli-boot


Thanks


"Mike Lowery" wrote:

>
> "pm32611" <pm32611@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:32B46279-EC4B-4D02-A9ED-11D36B476790@microsoft.com...
> >I have searched, but I guess in all the wrong places. I am right now
> > downloading Vista, which will be installed on a secondary hard drive. I want
> > to set up so that I can still boot to XP, if desired. Somebody show me what
> > is staring me in the face, because I just cant see it.

>
> Vista supports this with a new boot loader. I've got XP, 2003, and Vista all
> loaded on one partition and it works fine.
>
>
>

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Old 06-19-2006   #4 (permalink)
Mike Lowery
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Re: Dumm question from Newbie, about Mutli-boot


"Mike Lowery" <selfspam@mouse-potato.com> wrote in message
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>
> "pm32611" <pm32611@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:32B46279-EC4B-4D02-A9ED-11D36B476790@microsoft.com...
>>I have searched, but I guess in all the wrong places. I am right now
>> downloading Vista, which will be installed on a secondary hard drive. I want
>> to set up so that I can still boot to XP, if desired. Somebody show me what
>> is staring me in the face, because I just cant see it.

>
> Vista supports this with a new boot loader. I've got XP, 2003, and Vista all
> loaded on one partition and it works fine.


Oops, I meant to say I have it all loaded on one drive (separate partitions.)


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Old 07-07-2006   #5 (permalink)
Wendell A. Clark
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Re: Dumm question from Newbie, about Mutli-boot

If you just the advanced option and pick the new partition Windows vista
will load a bootloader for you ;-)


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"pm32611" <pm32611@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:32B46279-EC4B-4D02-A9ED-11D36B476790@microsoft.com...
>I have searched, but I guess in all the wrong places. I am right now
> downloading Vista, which will be installed on a secondary hard drive. I
> want
> to set up so that I can still boot to XP, if desired. Somebody show me
> what
> is staring me in the face, because I just cant see it.
>
> Thanks



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