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.

You must have second primary partition for Vista. You can create it in
DiskManager. When installing Vista select that partion for Vista. If u want
to get your XP back You can always do it by using Repair installation of
Windows XP. Boot using XP cd, select to install XP ( no repair at this
point) xp installation now searches for previous XP intallations and finds
your XP..now select repair.


"HagarTheHorrible" <HagarTheHorrible@discussions.microsoft.com> kirjoitti
viestissä:05ADEF19-9B8A-4F8E-9E44-065C4BD0C82F@microsoft.com...
> 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.

Since you have the extra drive, just set it up as the master driveand your
"XP drive as the slave. Then install Vista on the master. All your data and
documents will be available from the slave drive. As an added plus, Vista
will set up a boot loader that will let you boot to either OS.

Would you like my shipping address? (ha ha)
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"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.