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Dual boot Vista and Xp

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Dropmachine

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So, I had XP on my machine, and tried to install Vista on the same drive as a dual boot. I figured it would be like doing it with XP and anything else, just choose a different directory.

Not so.

Vista overwrote my XP installation, but backed it up to windows.old.

So, figuring that my entire old OS is probably still in that file, how do I get that back? Is it possible?

And How would I dual boot a copy of XP to play nice with vista? Do I have to do it to another drive?

Thanks!
 
Originally posted by: Dropmachine
So, I had XP on my machine, and tried to install Vista on the same drive as a dual boot. I figured it would be like doing it with XP and anything else, just choose a different directory.

Not so.

Vista overwrote my XP installation, but backed it up to windows.old.

So, figuring that my entire old OS is probably still in that file, how do I get that back? Is it possible?
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See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933168/en-us. Any good?

And How would I dual boot a copy of XP to play nice with vista? Do I have to do it to another drive?
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That's what I did, completely unplugging the XP drive first, then installing Vista on the other, then reconnecting the XP drive and using the motherboard's own boot-device selection menu to select the drive & OS I want to boot. The WinXP installation actually hasn't been working lately, which may be due to my new dual-monitor setup, but I so seldom have a reason to boot XP that I haven't bothered to fix it yet 😀

 
I just installed Vista as a dual boot and am trying it out now. I have 3 hard drives. Vista is on one drive Xp is on the other and i use the third ofr storage. Before installing vista i read that if your going to put it on the same drive as xp it needs to be on a seperate partition. Did you partition the drive or did you just put it on the drive. I was going to take my 150 gig raptor and partition it into 2 75 gig drives then install xp on one and vista on the other but i want to test drive so i put it on the 2nd hard drive
 
Separate partitions is the easiest way, install XP first and just pick the other partition for Vista. A boot menu will be created for you, and that's that. If you use the same partition you're going to have problems. At the very least you would want to use custom folder locations for /windows, /program files and /documents and settings.
 
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