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| | Dual Boot Installation XP Pro And Vista RC1 Hi Guys. I have i old PC that i have tried to keep it up to date ( P4 2.8G ) A week ago I had : Primery IDE Master. WD 80G in two partition Drive C: a. 20G old win98se (Active Partition and boot or whatever is was.) Drive E: b. 60g WinXP MCE Slave. WD 180G For storage Drive D: A week ago i installed Vista RC1 (new install on Drive C: i chose to erase win98se but i made i copy of the file in c: drive Boot ini and some more) and i lost boot menu. I can't boot XP anymore. I have tried VistaBoot Pro and EasyBCD 1.2. I have tried to reinstall Xp from the original disk and is stops at first restart not giving me a chose to fix xp. i have format c: and then tried to run xp setup but no success is stops at the same place. old boox configuration was: boot.ini [boot loader] timeout=2 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Media Center Edition (bootscreen)" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /KERNEL=kernel1.exe multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Media Center Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect C:\="Microsoft Windows 98" Please Help me if you can and thank you for taking the time to read this. Big Foot |
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| | RE: Dual Boot Installation XP Pro And Vista RC1 If you want to start over and reload everything, this is what I would do: -Make two partitions on the master hdd. Maybe using the bigger drive. -install XP on C: -install Vista on D: while booted into XP (called a custom install- I think) -add the slave later (but that may not matter-- just what I would do) I am not an expert, but I have been running Vista for a while and other than a sata mb driver issue at first, I haven't had any problems installing (knock on wood). |
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| | RE: Dual Boot Installation XP Pro And Vista RC1 I would like to know is it possible to install windows vista RC1 and I would like to know if you can run it from HD if you have a dual HD Please let me know... "stardis" wrote: > If you want to start over and reload everything, this is what I would do: > > -Make two partitions on the master hdd. Maybe using the bigger drive. > -install XP on C: > -install Vista on D: while booted into XP (called a custom install- I think) > -add the slave later (but that may not matter-- just what I would do) > > I am not an expert, but I have been running Vista for a while and other than > a sata mb driver issue at first, I haven't had any problems installing > (knock on wood). |
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| | RE: Dual Boot Installation XP Pro And Vista RC1 Do a search at the top of this page using "dual hdd" and you will find a lot of information. I haven't used two hdd for the Vista installation. "Brian R. Hastings" wrote: > I would like to know is it possible to install windows vista RC1 and I would > like to know if you can run it from HD if you have a dual HD Please let me > know... > > "stardis" wrote: > > > If you want to start over and reload everything, this is what I would do: > > > > -Make two partitions on the master hdd. Maybe using the bigger drive. > > -install XP on C: > > -install Vista on D: while booted into XP (called a custom install- I think) > > -add the slave later (but that may not matter-- just what I would do) > > > > I am not an expert, but I have been running Vista for a while and other than > > a sata mb driver issue at first, I haven't had any problems installing > > (knock on wood). |
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