Installing Xp and Vista on same HDD. Major HELP needed.

wizardcia

wizardcia

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Another problem by me. I bought vista about 6 months ago, I installed it and everything runs OK. Now i want to have XP AND Vista on the same HDD. I know thats possible with disk partition and i did that but the problem is that i can go further with the installation of my XP home.
When i start the installation of XP (press Enter to install XP etc) it asks me to choose a partition, i choose the one i made earlier (25GB of total size). It loads the necesary drivers and it says press enter to reboot(or wait 15 secs to reboot automaticaly). Ok here starts my problem:
It reboots, but then i see only a runner and nothing more. ( _ )
i wait for about 5 minutes and it still does nothing, and i dont know what to do. I am forced to fix startup with the Vista installation disk but my XP is not installed.
I have searched the bloody web (STFW) and i found nothing, only some data i already knew.You are my last chanse guys. I love XP as much as i love Vista but there is there a way have both OSs without problems? Please help, any help apreciated and accepted.
Sorry for my English, i am 17 and I study it.
 

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Then you should download EasyBCD (Google) and install XP into the bootloader.

Then you can always pick your Windows.
 

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Dual Boot
follow the link -- should have some helpful stuff for ya

hope its helps...
 

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That link Loki posted is the same link I recommend to *everyone* who wants to boot multiple OSs from their HD, and APCMag has it all covered - whether you want to dual boot Vista and XP, Vista and *nix, XP and * nix, and regardless of which you have installed first. Also, they have a nice section for *triple* booting as well....

It is really easy to follow, and has excellent screen shots as well. You'd do well to read it thoroughly *before* attempting to start out.
 

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Well, i carefully read the whole page you gave me and, besides that i knew all these, i couldnt fix this.
You can read my problem again. I am very specific, and everything stops with a black screen and a runner ( _ ) on it. That forces me to boot the vista dvd and fix the startup.
I want to install XP and that way didnt worked, probably it is something on my machine.
Any ideas?
 

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To be more helpfullwith my problem here s a picture.

Its here and what i point is the runner that never stops winking.
Do i have some drivers missing? Please guys give a reply.
 

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Check event viewer and device manager for problems.
 

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wizardcia said:
How to do that?
Click to expand...

Hello wizardcia.

Copy/paste "Device Manager" and "Event Viewer" in the "Start Search" line in the start menu.



Later :shock: Ted
 

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