Dual Booting Vista Home Premium with XP "Fishb8" <royandros[ at ]xtra.co.nz> 6/16/2007 11:48:43 PM 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 second hard drive. Do I just point to that drive when installing XP and follow the installation instructions, followed by the VistaBootPRO actions. Can I specify which installation to choose as my default OS? Also, can I change the timing for the default choice. I'd like to make Vista as my primary boot. Vista's good but I have hardware that won't work on it, hence the need for a dual as I don't want to replace my scanner, etc.

Re: Dual Booting Vista Home Premium with XP Don <don195702[ at ]hotmail.com> 6/17/2007 1:21:28 AM Fishb8 wrote: [Quoted Text] > 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 second hard drive. Do I just point to that > drive when installing XP and follow the installation instructions, followed > by the VistaBootPRO actions. > Can I specify which installation to choose as my default OS? Also, can I > change the timing for the default choice. I'd like to make Vista as my > primary boot... Because you need to install XP from scratch, there is another very practical alternative you should seriously consider: you can run XP as a 'virtual' OS from inside your Vista using this: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx If you decide to go the separate-install route instead, you will need to use VistaBootPro to re-install the Vista boot manager after installing XP, which is very easy to do.

Re: Dual Booting Vista Home Premium with XP "Rock" <Rock[ at ]nospam.net> 6/17/2007 8:43:30 AM "Fishb8" wrote [Quoted Text] > 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 second hard drive. Do I just point to > that drive when installing XP and follow the installation instructions, > followed by the VistaBootPRO actions. > Can I specify which installation to choose as my default OS? Also, can I > change the timing for the default choice. I'd like to make Vista as my > primary boot. > Vista's good but I have hardware that won't work on it, hence the need for > a dual as I don't want to replace my scanner, etc. Here are a couple of links to peruse on dual booting XP and Vista. There are issues with Vista's restore points being deleted when XP is booted. http://bertk.mvps.org/html/dualboot.html Install Windows XP in a Dual Boot with Pre-installed Windows Vista http://www.pro-networks.org/forum/about88231.html Install Windows XP On A Machine Already Running Windows Vista http://vistasupport.mvps.org/install_windows_xp_on_machine_running_vista.htm -- Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]