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Old 02-22-2009   #1 (permalink)


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Duel Boot Windows Vista home premium installed 1st and windows XP

hi

I have purchased New laptop Toshiba M600 , i got default windows Vista home premiun installed on laptop . On 120 GB hard disk i have created another partision to install windows XP . XP installed successfully but , after installation when i started my lapton default XP is booting , there is no option to select operating system

Please suggest
Thanks in advance

Ashish Deshpande

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Old 02-22-2009   #2 (permalink)
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Re: Duel Boot Windows Vista home premium installed 1st and windows XP

When you installed XP you over-wrote the Vista bootloader, hence the PC only
booting to XP. See this link from my website for more information:
http://www.winuser.co.uk/windows_vis...ing_vista.html

Pay particular attention to step 16.


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> hi
>
> I have purchased New laptop Toshiba M600 , i got default windows Vista
> home premiun installed on laptop . On 120 GB hard disk i have created
> another partision to install windows XP . XP installed successfully but
> , after installation when i started my lapton default XP is booting ,
> there is no option to select operating system
>
> Please suggest
> Thanks in advance
>
> Ashish Deshpande
>
>
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> ashishdeshpande
My System SpecsSystem Spec
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