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Booting vista alongside xp
no99spam.com> wrote: FYI: There have been some comments that SP1 would prevent XP's deletion of Vista's restore points. Not true, they are deleted. Perhaps XP's SP3 will prevent it. I'm curious about dual boot. Can you install XP if the PC has Vista on it first? what is the procedure to install XP and not affecting

Booting Vista on Different PC Computers No label
Rock R...@nospam.net microsoft public windows vista installation_setup "Fishb8" wrote I've read the instructions for dual-booting Vista/XP. I have 2 hard drives (SATA); the one with Vista is a 400 Gb with 80 Gb for Vista and another partition for the rest. The second is an 80 GB drive. I'd like to install my XP on

Dual Booting Vista Home Premium with XP
The easiest way to do this is with Vista Boot Pro or EasyBCD. Links for both and instructions provided in another post in this same thread. ...winston "Hiawatha Bray" <wa...@monitortan.com> wrote in message news:lcCfi.5672$XH5.3825@trndny02... I don't understand. I have to format my C drive? I don't wanna do that.

Dual booting vista 32 and vista 64
David B. brooks...@nospam.hotmail.com microsoft public windows vista general Answered in Hardware_Devices, please crosspost if you must, don't multipost, it just keeps saying remove discs and press any button to retry. any ideas would be great. seems as vista does not like booting from floppys. would i need to

dual booting vista & xp
Result: Vista does not boot. I have researched the subject but still have not found a solution. The microsoft vista deployment step by step seems awfully complex. Has anyone found a simple way to solve this problem? Yes. Buy another copy of Windows Vista and a drive to put it on. This might run, oh, $600 or so.

Thinking about dual booting Vista x64 & XP
Steven M. Bellovin s...@cs.columbia.edu muc lists netbsd port i386 I just saw http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/2007/03/sort/time_rev/page/1/entry/ 0:81/20070318184622:7F00D280-D5A2-11DB-B45F-8097599214BB/ (caution: Javascript required to view that page). If fully accurate, dual-booting is going to be a

Dual Booting Vista 5270
"sdjeff" <socialdeviantj...@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:sdjeff.2thtde@no-mx.tabletquestions.com... So is it possible to dual boot vista 32 and 64? I have equipment that will only work in 32 bit but I have some 64 bit apps. So, it would be cool to have the choice. I also only have one DVD copy and one licence.

Booting Vista (Home Premium) Problem
Shane Nokes Morpheus_Phr...@nospam.msn.com microsoft public windows vista general If it's clicking then it's a bad drive. Sounds like warped heads to me. I'd have it replaced. "Mark Ryan" <markr...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message news:D4B6F1FB-53B0-4C53-B0B5-AB033AB22CF6@microsoft.com... yes, eventually got it

Booting Vista on Different PC Computers
"cccharlee" wrote: I install Vista Ultimate on one PC. It is an HP Pavilion a1700n. I remove the 40 GB IDE HD from the HP PC and put it into a Compaq EVO 510 PC. Result: Vista does not boot. I have researched the subject but still have not found a solution. The microsoft vista deployment step by step seems awfully

Thinking about dual booting Vista x64 & XP
Lee: Actually, I find XP's ability to delete Vista's restore points useful. Vista ignores my max setting for disk space to be used for restore points (as did XP). And, Disk Cleanup does not always free a significant amount of the disk space used by the restore points. So, a quick boot into XP solves the problem.

Dual booting Vista SP1 and XP SP2
Then use Boot/pxeboot.0 as your kernel statement. The lines I used with pxelinux and vesamenu: label winpe MENU LABEL ^Windows PE kernel Boot/pxeboot.0 "LANDeskLabRat" wrote: I have searched hi and lo for days, trying to find someone with insight as to how to go about booting Vista -or- PE v2.0 via PXE through the

Problems dual-booting Vista?
Bruce Chambers bchamb...@cable0ne.n3t microsoft public windows vista installation_setup ccchar...@inbox.com wrote: I install Vista Ultimate on one PC. It is an HP Pavilion a1700n. I remove the 40 GB IDE HD from the HP PC and put it into a Compaq EVO 510 PC. Result: Vista does not boot.

Dual booting Vista Ultimate 64 bit with XP Pro
I`m getting a new machine that comes with Vista Home Premium. The general opinion seems to be that there are compatability probs with some apps and games so I was considering a dual boot system. Googled a query and most recommend this but all advise a partition on the HD. Is there any advantage/disadvantage to

Booting Vista on Different PC Computers
So if I disable the primary (xp) disk in setup then vista boots from secondary disk. Can I make it easy to boot vista as needed by adding a vista entry in my xp boot.ini? If yes, what would be the entry considering the vista is on secondary (disk1?) drive and in first partition? Thanks Regards.

Dual booting vista 32 and vista 64
Timothy Daniels TDani...@NoSpamDot.com microsoft public windowsxp general "Rock" "Timothy Daniels" wrote "Rock" wrote: "luis hernandez" wrote is it possible to dual boot vista and xp when: a) vista is already installed b) xp is on an extended partition without having to reinstall vista Yes, but you need to provide

PXE Booting Vista/PE 2.0 Using PXELINUX.0
MARK SCHON masc...@gvtc.com microsoft public windows vista general I have boot.ini on my vista machine (left over from before I upgraded). It starts out with the below warnings: Warning: Boot.ini is used on Windows XP and earlier operating systems. Warning: Use BCDEDIT.exe to modify Windows Vista boot options.

Need help dual-booting Vista and XP
I then installed Vista 5270 on the D: drive, and then that booted up fine. However when I went into the XP boot, that failed badly. I restarted and tried to load Vista, and that worked fine. I could access the C: (XP) disk from when I was in Vista and that seemed fine! So I have no idea what went off,

Booting vista alongside xp
It will restore correct Vista bootsector and at the next restart you will see your previous Vista's bootmenu. You must also copy out and restore a hidden file bootmgr. 2. If on C: drive you have a hidden \Boot catalog, then copy it out before formatting C: and restore it thereafter. Jack You must also copy out and

dual booting vista & xp
Hi xp is on my primary sata disk and on my secondary sata disk there is a separate install of vista. So if I disable the primary (xp) disk in setup then vista boots from secondary disk. Can I make it easy to boot vista as needed by adding a vista entry in my xp boot.ini? If yes, what would be the entry considering

Need help dual-booting Vista and XP
I have read up some on dual booting Vista with XP, and understand that restore points, will become deleted when dual booting I believe. I also have read that Vista BootPro seems to be a fairly popular third party boot program to use, rather than the built in boot manager of Vista, not sure if this fixes the deleted