Dual Boot XP & Vista "Tim" <erat[ at ]NOSPAMblueyonder.co.uk> 7/4/2007 2:38:36 PM Hi there, I have one hard drive with 2 Primary Partitions on the first (active) partition I have installed XP Pro and on the second (hidden) partition I have installed Vista Ultimate. I'm using a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R MB with SATA HD and for some reason can't use PM Boot Magic 8. Is there another way of dual booting other than having to use Partition Magic via DOS to change the hidden partition to active and vice versa? Any help or pointers would be much appreciated. Many thanks, Tim.

Re: Dual Boot XP & Vista Generator <Generator.2t7u43[ at ]no-mx.forums.net> 7/4/2007 9:17:49 PM i am not sure why your partition is hidden,,i used acrondis disk director suite 10...i created a active partition and installed vista ultimate ,,then checked to make sure win xp was my default boot.. in sys/startup and recovery tab.and when the screen starts it says earlier windows os or vista ultimate and i boot into the one i want to use..i tried partition magic and was confused..acronis tells you what partition you want to create either for single os and data partion or dual os boot..maybe someone that uses partiton magic can help you better. but for me it was confusing to use. acronis is more user freindly i feel. i am changing soon i am goning to install vista ultimate on clean install and install xp on a partition i create either using vista shrink/ expand or via setup if i can do. -- Generator

Re: Dual Boot XP & Vista "Tim" <erat[ at ]NOSPAMblueyonder.co.uk> 7/5/2007 6:25:43 AM "Generator" <Generator.2t7u43[ at ]no-mx.forums.net> wrote in message news:Generator.2t7u43[ at ]no-mx.forums.net... [Quoted Text] > > i am not sure why your partition is hidden,,i used acrondis disk > director suite 10...i created a active partition and installed vista > ultimate ,,then checked to make sure win xp was my default boot.. in > sys/startup and recovery tab.and when the screen starts it says earlier > windows os or vista ultimate and i boot into the one i want to use..i > tried partition magic and was confused..acronis tells you what partition > you want to create either for single os and data partion or dual os > boot..maybe someone that uses partiton magic can help you better. but > for me it was confusing to use. acronis is more user freindly i feel. i > am changing soon i am goning to install vista ultimate on clean install > and install xp on a partition i create either using vista shrink/ expand > or via setup if i can do. > > > -- > Generator Hi there, Managed to sort it almost made 2 partitions loaded XP on the first then loaded Vista on the second partition and the Vista bootmanager then kicked in so now I have the dual boot option. Then I used VistaBootPro 3.3.0 to modify the OS names and all is working now my only problem is that in Vista I can see the XP drive. In XP I've used Tweak UI to prevent XP seeing the Vista drive. Is there a way of not seeing the XP drive in Vista apart from using Bitlocker? Many thanks for your reply I must try Acronis it sounds like a useful tool. Tim.

Re: Dual Boot XP & Vista Don <don195702[ at ]hotmail.com> 7/7/2007 1:15:26 AM Tim wrote: .... [Quoted Text] > my only problem is that in Vista I can see the XP drive. Why do you object to that? XP will delete Vista's restore points, but not vice versa. > In XP I've used Tweak UI to prevent XP seeing the Vista drive. That's very interesting. The only way to hide the Vista partition that has been mentioned here involves using third-party booters which are able to set the 'hidden' bit in the partition table. > Is there a way of not seeing the XP drive in Vista apart from using > Bitlocker? As I said above, there are third-party boot-loaders which can hide any partition you wish in the partition table at boot time. I'd like to know more about what Tweak UI does, though. AFAIK it only fiddles the registry, not the partition table. > Many thanks for your reply I must try Acronis it sounds like a useful tool. Indeed. They allow a 30-day free trial download -- but I like it enough that I bought it.