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Another Vista / XP Dual Boot question.

Hauk

Hauk

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I'm finding several scenarios for dual booting Vista and XP, but am kinda confused. Here's my scenario:

Vista 64 already installed on 74G Raptor. I'm getting another Raptor and want to install XP on it. I want to select which OS to use when booting. I'd like to use each drive/OS for specific apps and want to keep all data totally seperate.

I'm finding info on Shrinking the Vista partition but believe that's for a single drive dual boot situation? How about a two drive situation? Your help or links would be appreciated. Other Raptor on the way...
 
Vista and XP ship with bootloaders that allow the booting of multiple Windows operating systems. What you want to do is going to be plenty doable; you just need to unplug the Vista drive while you're installing XP, so that nothing funky goes on with the drive letters and both OSs see their system drive as C. Once that's done you can plug the first Raptor back in, at which point it may or may not be tricky to get XP to show up in the Vista bootloader depending on how lucky you are that day. You'll need the Vista installation CD, ideally when you boot off of it and go in to the recovery console and have Vista rebuild the bootloader it will find XP on its own.
 
So worst case scenario, when I plug my Vista drive back up it doesn't see XP as a bootable OS on the other drive, and in that case I have to run the recovery console for Vista to rebuild the bootloader.

Is the recovery console command prompt? If so, what command do I use? Or do I just select repair, rebuild, or something else? Thanks...
 
Originally posted by: SteelSix
So worst case scenario, when I plug my Vista drive back up it doesn't see XP as a bootable OS on the other drive, and in that case I have to run the recovery console for Vista to rebuild the bootloader.

Is the recovery console command prompt? If so, what command do I use? Or do I just select repair, rebuild, or something else? Thanks...
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I actually haven't used the Vista recovery console lately, so I don't remember off of the top of my head. You should be able to figure it out, and if not, I think the command is fixboot. Keep in mind this may not fix it; this is all very possible, but sometimes the Vista boot loader is stupid and doesn't always see XP.
 
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