Success strategies for XP/Vista dual boot?

[Noel]

Having put together a new box and installed XP, it's time to decide how to proceed with Vista 64 in the same box.

If you have a recommended approach to dealing with some of the issues for dual booting these two and have come up with a strategy that works (eliminates the restore point issues for example), I'd much appreciate your insights.

Also, recommendations on using dedicated drives for eash OS versus partitions in a RAID-10 for each OS.

Thanks!

Noel

 

[ivo2296]

Hi,

I'm using EasyBCD and i have WinXP, Vista Ultimate 32-bit and Vista 64-bit installed. I have installed EasyBCD on my OEM Vista Home 32-bit which came with my PC and since i have no problems....
Download EasyBCD 1.7.1 - NeoSmart Technologies

 

[Noel]

Hi,

I'm using EasyBCD and i have WinXP, Vista Ultimate 32-bit and Vista 64-bit installed. I have installed EasyBCD on my OEM Vista Home 32-bit which came with my PC and since i have no problems....
Download EasyBCD 1.7.1 - NeoSmart Technologies

Thanks I will check it out.

Noel

 

[Noel]

Can you use EasyBCD if you start with XP installed as your one OS, or must you install Vista first?

Thanks looks promising!

 

[ivo2296]

EasyBCD installs in Vista OS only. So you have installed XP, now you need to install Vista in a second partition and then install EasyBCD. From it you have to point which OS on whish drive is...... that's all.

 

[gwbdopesmoker]

Re: Switch to Linux: strategies for XP/Vista dual boot?

I tried installing Winpuk2k8 RTM on a w2k3 + sp2 and it failed to
boot either OS afterwards. WinPuk2k8 uses a differ loader so likely if
you installed that first, then an older 1988 product it may work.