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Need help dual-booting Vista and XP
I used Acronis true image 10 to clone the old harddrive but I can't get it to boot from the new harddrive, the computer just keeps on restarting. Any advice on what may be wrong? I found an older post on this forum saying somethign about using a disk but I don't have any from the manufacturer.

dual booting vista and windows 98
"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 more specifics such as disk and partition configuration, where each is

Booting vista alongside xp
microsoft public windowsxp general 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. That's a feature of both XP and Vista. If you want Vista on your HP then install

Booting vista alongside xp
Tiberius Tib...@yahoo.com microsoft public windows vista general no.. I think only Vista Ultimate retail has 2 DVDs.. one for 32 and one for 64 bit the rest of the Vista versions do not have the other DVD, but you can order it from MS. I think its totally free.. im not sure if you have to pay for the postage.

Dual booting Vista Ultimate 64 bit with XP Pro
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. I have researched the subject but still have not found a solution. The microsoft vista deployment step by step seems awfully

Booting Vista on Different PC Computers No label
I'm considering adding a second HD to my Windows XP Pro system and installing Vista Ultimate on this second disk. My system does pass the Microsoft upgrade advisor. Not sure exactly how to proceed with the dual boot setup and would appreciate any and all advice. -- Jim.

Need help dual-booting Vista and XP
matthew-john...@interbaun.com microsoft public windows developer winfx general To dual boot vista and XP is relitivly simple.Bigges thing you have to rember(as with all dual boots) is to intall the older OS's first. Begin with DOS/Win9x bassed OS's, then go on to WinXP/2000/NT bassed OS's, then install Vista,

Dual booting Vista SP1 and XP SP2
Alexander Terekhov terek...@web.de comp os linux advocacy Rex Ballard wrote: I recently got a request via e-mail from someone who wanted to install Linux and Vista in "Dual Boot" mode. I opted not to get Vista, because I wanted to use Linux as the primary OS and Windows as a client in VMWare.

dual booting vista & xp
Bruce Chambers bchamb...@cable0ne.n3t microsoft public windows vista general 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. I have researched the subject but still

Booting Vista on Different PC Computers No label
I'm buying a new computer which will have windows Vista (64 bit version) Home Premium installed on it. I've read reports about drivers not being available etc. so I want to have a dual booting option so I can use Windows XP to run any programs that won't run on Vista. I believe I can do this by installing XP on a

Dual Booting Vista & Linux - experiences? Horror Stories?
I was able to boot with the dvd, do a repair and now It's booting, but now I see a folder called BOOT on my slave drive and bootex.log and bootmgr. I dont see these files on drive c: nor do I see boot.ini (does vista use it?). Can I just MOVE the boot folder and the 2 files to c: so I can boot off c:,

Booting Vista on Different PC Computers
I booted into xp drive, ran VistaBootPro and selected to install Vista Boot loader on disk C: (xp drive). On reboot it comes up with the following; Windows failed to start...insert system disk and select repair... File: \Boot\BCD Error: 0x0000000f Info: An error occurred while attempting to read the boot

Booting Vista on Different PC Computers No label
Lee Chapelle f...@shlugginer.com microsoft public windows vista general "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.

dual booting vista & xp
John Barnes jbar...@email.net microsoft public windows vista general microsoft public windows vista installation_setup You cannot boot Vista using the boot.ini. That is only for legacy systems. You can use EasyBCD or VistaBootPro, from your Vista system, and add a legacy drive to the Vista boot screen.

Booting Vista on Different PC Computers
Vista 64 bit Ultimate is installed, on it's own new hard drive. Had a little scare in that I could not figure out how to boot back into XP, for some reason I was not given the bootloader option during boot, it just kept booting into Vista. I went in to the bios, and selected the hard drive XP is on as first boot

Dual booting Vista SP1 and XP SP2
cccharlee cccharlee.32u...@DoNotSpam.com microsoft public windows vista general And mick, which newsgroups would that be? I posted my question in every forum and newsgroup i could find! Thanks in davance -- cccharlee ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cccharlee's Profile:

Dual Booting Vista Home Premium with XP
Purpose: to boot vista (installed on an HP a1700n) on a Compaq Evo 510. Apparatus: 1 Compaq Evo PC, 1 HP a1700n PC, 1 40 GB HD, 1 20GB HD, a 3rd HD drive with a functioning Windows XP installed, 1 Vista Ultimate CD, one 2 GB flash drive (a 500 MB flash drive will do), Freediff software from http://saltybrine.com

Booting Vista on Different PC Computers No label
Rex Ballard rex.ball...@gmail.com comp os linux advocacy I recently got a request via e-mail from someone who wanted to install Linux and Vista in "Dual Boot" mode. I opted not to get Vista, because I wanted to use Linux as the primary OS and Windows as a client in VMWare. Since Vista has so many restrictions and

Dual Booting Vista Home Premium with XP
When you install XP, it will break Vista's boot loader. The Vista DVD should immediately detect this and offer to fix it when you click on the "Repair my computer" (or some similar) option at the first menu. - Aaron <neil...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message news:1172604800.913426.251120@m58g2000cwm.googlegroups.com.

Booting Vista on Different PC Computers No label
Ken Blake, MVP kbl...@this.is.an.invalid.domain microsoft public windows vista general On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 12:05:47 +0530, cccharlee <cccharlee.32u...@DoNotSpam.com> wrote: And mick, which newsgroups would that be? I posted my question in every forum and newsgroup i could find! For the future, please do *not* do not