haha, thanks, but you're a good few hours late. by the time of your post i'd already completely installed Vista 32 and gone to bed
Dual Boot PROBLEM - XP 64 Vista 64 - Help
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haha, thanks, but you're a good few hours late. by the time of your post i'd already completely installed Vista 32 and gone to bed
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supposed to be good, give it a shot, it's free
i don't dual boot, i just keep one os per hard drive
can i ask why have you coloured out the drive names? are they swear words or something?
supposed to be good, give it a shot, it's free
i don't dual boot, i just keep one os per hard drive
can i ask why have you coloured out the drive names? are they swear words or something?
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Look, this is not rocket science.
Boot from EITHER of the install media.
Format 2 partitions, preferably, though not essentially the first two on a drive.
Install XP on the first of them
Once finished, and XP is happy, reboot.
Boot from Vista DVD, use custom install option, select the 2nd partition you made.
End of problems.
Done this a dozen times mate.
What Vista calls your XP's "C:" drive is utterly irrelevant, as Vista always changes the name of it's own root partition to C: once booted anyway. So both my XP and Vista see themselves as being on C: and also see one another as being on D:
(doesn't work the same with 2 XP's BTW)
If you need to change drive letters, partition magic is good, but you cannot change letters for bootable drives.
Boot from EITHER of the install media.
Format 2 partitions, preferably, though not essentially the first two on a drive.
Install XP on the first of them
Once finished, and XP is happy, reboot.
Boot from Vista DVD, use custom install option, select the 2nd partition you made.
End of problems.
Done this a dozen times mate.
What Vista calls your XP's "C:" drive is utterly irrelevant, as Vista always changes the name of it's own root partition to C: once booted anyway. So both my XP and Vista see themselves as being on C: and also see one another as being on D:
(doesn't work the same with 2 XP's BTW)
If you need to change drive letters, partition magic is good, but you cannot change letters for bootable drives.