Vista - Dual Boot Installation with Windows Vista and XP

Dear Shawn,

This is in relation to Vash79 problem, i would like to know that can we remove the XP in the following way (assuming XP installed in other drive) :
1) Boot through Vista
2) Format the drive where XP is installed
3) Use the EasyBCD software to repair the boot manager.

Thanks and Regards,
Nikhil.

Hello Nikhil,

Yes, you can also use that method as well.

Hi guys..I just joined and I have a question about the tutorial.

Shawn I have a working xp sp3 32-bit on one drive and I just installed a vista business 64-bit on a seperate drive (not partition). when i updated and restarted, I did not get the boot selecting page. any ideas?

thanks

Hello VRV, and welcome to Vista Forums.

While in XP, go ahead and do steps 7 to 15 in METHOD TWO to add Vista using EasyBCD. When you get to steps 10 and 11, use the settings boxed in red in the screenshot below for Vista instead of for XP.



Hope this helps,
Shawn

Hi Shawn,

thanks for the welcome and the reply.

funny thing...about that......I already did install vista from cd boot through dos before posting the question, and thats why i cant see xp anymore which is (was) on an entirely different drive.

i read somewhere that i can press down key repeatedly to get the boot list, so i did..and strangely enough xp wasnt there (just vista), although when i went into vista, i was able to see the os windows, program files and all my docs & files on that other drive which had my xp installed on!

in any case, in the line of making this the clean way..now i have a working vista 64 bit..and another freshly formated drive that i would like to install xp on again.

should i do it from inside vista or dos (boot cd)?
...and anything i should take into account..regarding restore points being deleted and god knows what else?

thanks for your help

If you can boot to Vista and are going to reinstall XP, then you can just do METHOD TWO to do so.

XP will wipe out Vista's restore points everytime you start XP, so you may want to do the tutorial below in XP to prevent this after installation is complete.

System Restore Points - Stop XP Dual Boot Delete