Vista - Dual Size 10 Vista/XP Army Boot & Free Beer

OK... excuse the title... but here's my situation. I'm running XP on a 40 Gig
drive and have a free 20 Gig drive on which to run Vista. Since active brain
cells are at a premium this weekend, I am looking for the simplest path to do
a dual boot with both OS. I am more than a bit apprehensive in doing this and
like the notion of having an XP safety net available.

Suggestions folks? A free case of LaBatts or Molson to the first person to
come up with an approach that will get me through this.

Create a new partition on your drive with Partition Magic no less than 12
gig. Assign it a drive letter and make it a primary partition ,Format it
NTFS. Reboot your machine and let Partition magic do its thing. (Takes
awhile). After rebooting again into Win XP, run Vista setup and direct the
setup routine to install to the new partition. After setup you will get a
boot menu allowing you to boot either XP or Vista. I found a utility also
that allows you to alter the boot menu from a user interface to make it a
little more user friendly... cant recall the name but after I figure it out I
will post it. This worked fine for me and Vista is mind blowingly beautiful
and functional.


Good Luck
CKJ

"HagarTheHorrible" wrote:

> OK... excuse the title... but here's my situation. I'm running XP on a 40 Gig
> drive and have a free 20 Gig drive on which to run Vista. Since active brain
> cells are at a premium this weekend, I am looking for the simplest path to do
> a dual boot with both OS. I am more than a bit apprehensive in doing this and
> like the notion of having an XP safety net available.
>
> Suggestions folks? A free case of LaBatts or Molson to the first person to
> come up with an approach that will get me through this.