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Dual Boot with Vista and XP Pro?
I have never used an OEM version of windows in a "dual boot setup" will this work?" Currently using an OEM Windows XP Pro SP 2 and would like to 'upgrade' to a OEM version of Vista on a different drive with a dual boot setup. Its gonna work if you install them on different partitions.

Xp Pro and Vista non traditional dual boot
I want to keep my current XP Pro 32 bit install as my primary OS, and just play around/experiment with Vista 64 bit Ultimate. I currently have two sata hard Anyways, any tips from those of you that have set up a dual boot between Vista and XP would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -- Don EVGA 780i MB Intel Core2

dual boot xp pro & vista
GB Primary partition for Windows XP PRO Media Center 2005 and a 47.5 GB logical partition onto which I installed Windows Vista Ultimate RC2. I am quite happy with the way Vista Ultimate performs on the laptop. I did not think to download the 64 bit version when it was available, so I've downloaded the trial version

Dual-Boot Issue; XP Pro ---> Vista
I had to dump vista and purchase xp pro. now all works fine. I have added another hard drive and I was wondering if I could do a dual boot with xp on 1 drive and vista on another drive? there seems to be several problems with vista but I would like to play with it for a while to make my own decision. this is the

Vista dual boot with xp pro x64
You might want to install a bootloader in XP to make life easier with the dual boot. EasyBCD: http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1 or VistaBootPro: http://www.vistabootpro.org/ These allow you to alter the boot order or rename the systems. -- Peter Toronto, Canada XP Pro SP2 x 2 + Vista Ultimate "Richard"

dual boot xp pro & vista
Mike Hall - MVP mikeh...@mvps.com microsoft public windows vista general It doesn't lock out a drive, neither is it dual boot. Essentially, what I have is a machine with two parallel installations, one Vista and one XP. Whichever OS is running can see and use all of the drives. "Someone" <hots...@davidinCT.com>

Installed Vista dual boot, think I screwed up!
When I booted to the Vista dvd and installed it, things went fine until it tries to restart and boot up Vista. Right after choosing Vista from the boot list I description Windows XP Professional Windows Boot Loader ------------------- identifier {default} device partition=V: path \Windows\system32\winload.exe

More anti-cyclist discrimination.
I am having problem with Vista when I want dual boot it with xp pro. I have norton internet security 2007 installed on XP. I restart my system and boot with vista ultimate CD and the installation runs properly but when I start it after installation completed the blank screen apears or some times graphic screen and

Dual-boot XP-Vista
In a previous dual boot scenario - long ago - maybe Win98 + XP - I used Partition Magic's boot manager and it did the clever hiding bit..... Regards Denis Intel DualCore 6600 WinXP Pro , Vista 64 MSI P965Neo Seagate 400Gig HD Gainward Bliss 7600GS PCX 256Meg video card.

Dual Boot XP Pro and Vista OEM
When its all said and done C drive will be Vista when you boot into Vista and C drive will be XP when you boot into XP. It's all looked after. I like a pretty face sometimes so I quite like Vista. once my accounting program gets working (updated properly) to work with Vista I may never boot XP.

Dual Boot XP Pro & Vista 64-bit
Anyways, I bought a laptop with XP Home installed. I then downloaded the beta 2 version of Vista, and had it install -over- XP. So, for a while, Vista was the only operating system. Tonight, I decided to install XP Pro, so that I could dual-boot. Now, only XP Pro boots, and I can't get Vista to boot.

Dual Boot XP Pro and Vista OEM
Colin, He's not in a dual boot situation so each drive is individual. You would have to do this if Vista was the boot manager. Don, Choose which ever OS you want to Vista boot Pro can be found http://www.vistabootpro.org/ -- Lance Frca {497083/1008563} MVP Shell/User www.zardoc.com XP-Vista Trucs et Astuces et

Dual boot Vista with XP Pro?
Don burnet...@clotheshotmail.com microsoft public windows 64bit general Hey gang, I have just received Vista Ultimate, along with a new hard drive to put it on, to dual boot with my current XP Pro 32 bit. I did a google search to try and do some reading on this. I have read , of an issue with restore points being

Problemas para reconstruir arranque dual
And my wife will only be using XP, so she won't be confused by having the choice of which os to boot into, it will automatically boot into XP for her. If it works for you then you are good to go. my memory is bad but I'm sure Vista did set up some kind of boot screen which let me select which op system I wanted to

Dual Boot XP Pro + Vista 64
dee d...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public technet howtoneeds Hello Everyone, please can anyone tell me how to do a dual boot with xp pro 64 bit and vista home prem 32 bit, I really need help bad. Thank You -- Dee.

ActiveSync ruined my dual-boot - how to restore Vista boot order?
... public windows vista installation_setup http://apcmag.com/5485/dualbooting_vista_and_xp Above is the link for how you should dual boot vista and XP. i installed xp pro in D:. the Vista is not bootable. reintalled vista by harddisk recover to C:, formated C: and installed vista. so the XP boot file was

Xp Pro and Vista non traditional dual boot
3) Most importantly, is it legal to have a dual boot XP/Vista setup with buying only the Vista upgrade and not the 'full version'? Of course I already have a valid copy of XP on this PC and I qualify for a Vista upgrade. When I bought the XP Pro upgrade years ago, rather than upgrade the Win98SE that I was running,

Can't dual boot Vista Home Premium & Win XP Pro
I installed XP onto a clean harddrive. After it finished, I used the disk management tool to partition the remainder of the drive and formatted each partition as NTFS. Next, I installed Vista Ultimate 64 on one of the partitions and had no problems at all with the installation, Vista and XP dual boot with no

Dual booting Vista Ultimate 64 bit with XP Pro
I asked this question previouly in this newsgroup and wanted to know if its even possible to dual boot between Windows XP Pro SP2 and Windows Vista Business 32-bit version? Just wondering if other users found a dual boot method that works without Vista messing up XP SP2. XP SP2 exists in the first partition on the

Dual boot Windows XP oraz Vista a kwestia uprawnień do katalogów
Here are the stats: K9n SLI Platimun AMD 4400 x2 dual seagate 160gb raptors (sata) as seperate drives (no striping or raid) dual 7600 Nvidia graphics cards (running SLI) 2 GB DDR2 800 Lightscribe DVD multi drive XP Pro x64 Problem. I am trying to install Vista on one of the Raptors from within the XP Pro