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Got Vista from a friend

thescreensavers

thescreensavers

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I got win vista from my friend scince he does not need it. So I put it on a 20 gig hd and my main XP pro is on another HD. now in order for vista to boot i need to go to the bios. And chage the HD priority over the xp pro and to get xp pro then i need to make that harddrive priority over the vista drive. is there any way to make it so I have a selection in the begining for which os I want. Like if I had 2 xp pros

so far vista is good. But only had 10 min to fiddle with it. When I get home I will look at it some more.

Thanks
 
Originally posted by: thescreensavers
I got win vista from my friend scince he does not need it. So I put it on a 20 gig hd and my main XP pro is on another HD. now in order for vista to boot i need to go to the bios. And chage the HD priority over the xp pro and to get xp pro then i need to make that harddrive priority over the vista drive. is there any way to make it so I have a selection in the begining for which os I want. Like if I had 2 xp pros

so far vista is good. But only had 10 min to fiddle with it. When I get home I will look at it some more.

Thanks
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actually from what i read so far no there isnt...
Vista likes being king of the system and doesnt play nice with other OSs at all..
they seem to have removed the easy to DB solution..
only way to really beta it seems to put it on its own SATA drive and swap it in when you feel like testing...
 
Basicy I want to make it so I dont want to go to bios to get to vista. My linux firend says theres some thing that will work and I dont need to install linux to get it to work. like some OS choise menue
 
actually from what i read so far no there isnt...
Vista likes being king of the system and doesnt play nice with other OSs at all..
they seem to have removed the easy to DB solution..
only way to really beta it seems to put it on its own SATA drive and swap it in when you feel like testing...
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What the hell are you talking about?

Dual boot with Vista and XP works fine. You need to follow the rule that has existed for EVERY new Windows OS--install the old OS first, then the new one. Vista has a new boot loader, and it works fine with XP.
 
Originally posted by: stash
actually from what i read so far no there isnt...
Vista likes being king of the system and doesnt play nice with other OSs at all..
they seem to have removed the easy to DB solution..
only way to really beta it seems to put it on its own SATA drive and swap it in when you feel like testing...
Click to expand...

What the hell are you talking about?

Dual boot with Vista and XP works fine. You need to follow the rule that has existed for EVERY new Windows OS--install the old OS first, then the new one. Vista has a new boot loader, and it works fine with XP.
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Or you can just copy the newest boot loader from the newest OS to the primary partition that the older version of Windows resides on?

For instance, if you were to install Windows XP Pro SP2, and then install Windows 2000, you could copy the ntldr from Windows XP Pro SP2 drive to a removable drive, and then copy it back to the primary partition after you install Windows 2000? Would that work?
 
Run Vista setup, tell it to install to the partition or drive you want and that's it. It should write the bootloader to your XP partition.
 
So is that the consensus, XP/Vista plays nice as two partitions of the same disk but not on two separate disks?

I also installed Vista CTP (freestuff from AMD Tech Tour) on the second partition of my boot disk with XP Pro on the primary ... then had to quickly learn bcdedit so my kids weren't confused by the choice of booting to "Legacy (pre-Longhorn) or Microsoft Windows" ...
 
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