dual booting?

[Raging]

i want to dual boot vista with xp but ime not sure how exactly to do it

is it just a case of making a partition on c drive and installing it there or is there more to it?

should i make a partition on c or one on my 2nd hard drive?

ive made an image of my c drive so if anything goes wrong i have backup..

thanks in advance chaps.

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[FarFarAway]

Well I made a partition on my boot drive when I installed XP, then I installed Vista on that afterwards.

Make sure you do XP then Vista or this will mess up the boot table.

 

[Raging]

so its cool if i say partition a 40-50gb on c and install vista on it and thats the dual boot done?

cheers.

 

[FarFarAway]

Ye if it doesn't screw your HDD

 

[FragTek]

I'm dual booting both right now, 2k3 and Vista that is. I have yet to boot in to 2k3 since installing Vista however.

Just do as Kemp stated and you'll be dual booting in no time.

 

[Raging]

Ye if it doesn't screw your HDD

haha,thats why ime playin it safe and made a backup image of my c drive

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[Raging]

well vista is dual booted and i must say it looks extremely good and the installation was a breeze and only took 20-25 minutes to install

i would be posting from vista but it wouldnt connect to the net for some reason

its general operation without any drivers is pretty decent too.

thanks.

 

[FarFarAway]

Wouldn't let you connect to the net?

You installed LAN drivers?

Posting from it now

 

[Raging]

not installed lan drivers yet,wouldnt of thought that would make a difference or would it? - cause i use a usb modem.

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[FarFarAway]

USB modem? *shudders*

Umm you have installed a Vista compatible driver for your modem?

 

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installed the one i use for xp,isp says its compatible(it installed fine)

will have a fiddle around with it later

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