Dule booting xp and vista is a probelm on this ass of a laptop

[HAz]

God damn this crap thing is annoying me!!!

Ok so this laptop has vista on. It came with 2 other partitions. So we got c:vista and D: backup

ok d: was 50g so i shrank it by 14Gb and made that E:

I then installed xp pro to E:, and then noticed it wasn't showing vista as a boot option, so i ran a repair using the vista dvd and now vista works but xp wont.

Basically its not showing a boot list when i boot up the piece of crap.


I dont get it?? cus it works fine with my netbook, i have vista and xp pro on same HDD under different partitions!! WTF

The only thing i can think of is my HDD is IDE (ithink) and his is SATA.

 

[HAz]

just found this http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/wind...on-your-pre-installed-windows-vista-computer/

should help me out lols

 

[HAz]

star out swearies

What swearies? and you are?

 

[HAz]

best way to do it..

format the drive

partition it like this..

partition 1, 20gb for XP
partition 2, 30gb for Vista
partition 3, the rest....

on partition 3, Create, x:\Vista\Program Files and x:\XP\Program Files (any that can be shared, just use X:\Program Files

install XP first to C:\
reboot with Vista dvd in, install to 2nd partition


you'll have a boot menu setup by Vista for both os

That link i posted has a program that creates the boot menu. Turns out if vista is pre installed and you install xp, they both overwrite each others boot.ini

 

[HAz]

u guys forget some of these preinstalled laptops dont come with a vista cd, infact it came with nothing!

 

[HAz]

can you not download a 'copy' of vista and use the license key on the bottom of your laptop??

nope, but as i said above, i have found a prog to sort this mess out.