Installing Vista help...

[Pants]

Hi,

I want Vista to run alongside Win XP. But when I go through the process and click "custom" for a fresh install, it tell me my old windows will not work. It wants to rename my windows folder to windows.old.

Why can't I instruct it to install in a folder called windows.new for example so I can dual boot?

I am running the installation of RC2 through Windows XP by the way.

Cheers.

 

[Pants]

OK I have installed it on to an old HDD.

Loving Vista tbh!

But I do not have the options to boot from XP. And I installed Vista on F:\ (from win XP perspective) but Vista sees the boot drive as C:\ not F:\.

My old XP boot drive C:\ is now seen as E:\.

Not sure what to do!

(EDIT FIXED!)

 

[Pants]

Sorry one last thing... I will get there in the end!

Vista was working fine. I have checked Win XP which is also fine. Now when I want to go back the Vista... it automatically goes into Setup... then it's pretty much a dead end as it's already installed!

Any ideas to make it default to Vista and not Vista Setup? I have tried F8 which only has the option to continue into Setup.

 

[Pants]

Got them on seperate drives and I can boot in either XP or Vista (setup).

I want it to just boot up Vista not Vista setup.

Was just about to do some benchmarks and comparisons etc!

 

[Pants]

Cheers for the tip mate. Vistabootpro has sorted it. I had to create a new option on the boot menu for Vista.