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Dual Booting Vista & Linux - experiences? Horror Stories?
Mark Ryan markr...@blueyonder.co.uk microsoft public windows vista general my western digital sata hard drive clicks now and again, there is an update i have 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

Dual Booting Vista 64 and XP
Hiawatha Bray wa...@monitortan.com microsoft public windows vista general microsoft public windows vista installation_setup I don't understand...I keep running Vista Boot Pro. It doesn't work. I didn the bootsect.exe thing too and it didn't work. I don't get it. What can I do? Thanks!

dual booting vista & xp
John Smith j...@smith.com microsoft public windows vista general Vista is not XP... I have done what you say, but the way I have done it is not to install vista compleatly, rather when durring the install, and before it starts detecting hardware, I unplug the drive then move it elsware why are you doing that in the

booting vista cloned harddrive
\"NachtWacht\" rembra...@van.ryn microsoft public windows vista installation_setup Lee Nuttall <dj_toonz_2...@hotmail.co.uk> schreef in bericht just installed vista home premium onto a new 160gig sata and running windows xp pro on a 200gig ide hard drive but got no boot menu when i switch on :-( is there a way

PXE Booting Vista/PE 2.0 Using PXELINUX.0
ray r...@zianet.com comp os linux advocacy On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:23:43 -0700, vishal wrote: i have instal xp and vista ultimate on two different partion.i want to install solaris 10 on another partition(10 GB). how can i do it? Put the CD/DVD in the drive and boot?

Dual Booting Vista & Linux - experiences? Horror Stories?
Fishb8 royand...@xtra.co.nz microsoft public windows vista installation_setup 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 the

Booting Vista/XP
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? Check first to see if your BIOS

dual booting vista & xp
I just put in my new hard drive I got for Vista. Booted with the Vista DVD and told it to format and install on the new hard drive. After awhile it was all done. Vista took care of everything. Computer now starts and with Vista's boot manager it gives me 10 seconds to select XP else it boots into Vista.

Dual Booting Vista 64 and XP
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 complex.

Booting Vista on Different PC Computers
criswell4 criswe...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista general I was thinking about purchasing Vista x64 home premium to install on a 2nd hard drive on my computer I am just worrying about hardware compatablity. We have Windows Server x64 at work and I notice it pretty much detects everything

Dual booting Vista Ultimate 64 bit with XP Pro
I have a Vista installed on C:\ and i installed yesterday xp on my d:\ my problem is now that i cant choose witch OS i want to start up with and im now stuck with xp without drivers and cant access Vista, can someone help me with my problem? I currently am using a dual boot combination of Vista and XP - XP on "C"

Need help dual-booting Vista and XP
Michael Solomon user@#notme.com microsoft public windows vista general Mark Ryan wrote: my western digital sata hard drive clicks now and again, 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 boot with

Booting Vista on Different PC Computers
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.

Booting Vista/XP
7 website_has_em...@www.enemygadgets.com 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 SP1 and XP SP2
"Malke" <notrea...@invalid.invalid> a écrit dans le message de news:et5oBYW0HHA.4916@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... teriaki511 wrote: i am happily, using a vista machine right now, and i was wondering, i know that vista supports dual booting different operating systems, will this work with windows 98? don't ask for my

Booting Vista on Different PC Computers
liu spamfree...@yahoo.com microsoft public windows vista general On Feb 13, 2:15 am, "CZ" <C...@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.

Booting Vista on Different PC Computers
Aaron Kelley aaronkel...@hotmail.com microsoft public windows 64bit general You will have to do some extra work to fix Vista's boot if you do this. (You're supposed to install older OS's first so that you do not have this problem.) I believe all you'll have to do is boot the Vista DVD and choose "Repair" (or

Booting Vista on Different PC Computers
ccchar...@inbox.com microsoft public windows vista general Guesss what guys? I have proved you all wrong in the past, now the present and soon the future as well! I have had some preliminary success in my experiments. Further experimentation is necessary! Purpose: to boot vista (installed on an HP a1700n) on a

Booting vista alongside xp
bHpMjXM...@schestowitz.com>: ____/ Rex Ballard on Wednesday 04 July 2007 20:35 : \____ 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.

Booting Vista (Home Premium) Problem
Hiawatha Bray wa...@monitortan.com microsoft public windows vista general microsoft public windows vista installation_setup I don't understand. I have to format my C drive? I don't wanna do that. I don't have a hidden \Boot catalog anyway. Can I just run the Vista command instead? "Jack" <replyto@it> wrote in