Dual Boot Vista and XP with Vista already installed

If you want to install Vista onto an XP computer, try the reverse tutorial: (XP already installed)
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I am having the same problem, how did you fix it?

No did not compleet the xp install as could not see the new partition to install it on vista is on c: so i f3 out and canceled the xp installatio vista still works fine

Hi

I did this but when xp gets to the bit ware you choose which partition to choose there is not a choice just c: a shrunken c: but xp cant see any other drive

i followed your instructions to shrink my vista c: drive and vista can see c: and the new drive x: but xp cant. i F3 out and did not continue with the xp install as i no you cant have 2 os on the same drive

please help

be sure that the partition you see is the vista partiton, and not the new partition. the installer will label the first or only partition it sees as C:\ no matter what Vista would name them.

I shrunk the x: drive as well now sop i have 3 drives but xp only see's c: drive which has vista on it i know this only buy the size of the drive

I've followed the guidlines in your article although I beleive these are for dual boot on seperate partitions and not for seperate hard drives, which tag needs to be altered?

it should be as simple as changing the boot letter for XP to the other drive letter (the drive which Vista shows under My Computer which has XP installed) It is likely to be D: or E:

hi,

when i did the shrink from my vista i jus made sure that it was not part of c drive any more (vista), IE an unpartitioned area on my hard drive along with drive c with vista on it. then i put my xp home disk in, let my xp disk partition and format the unpartioned space and installed xp on the new formatted space and it went fine from there.

Colecat7

how do i make my partition a primary partition, it's currently an extended, logical drive partition

hi,
i followed all the instructions properly, and now i am booting left and right between operating systems. comp starts up like it should, choicing me with both OP systems, and everything else is super.
But i do have a little prob, and i hope someone can help me. /i am using a comp with vista pre=inst, on a sata HD. getting XP as a second OP to run was no problem at all, the problem now is, that i can't seem to make my hardware work properly with XP.The proper display driver(nividia), adapter, network, and so on are giving me grief....i can't get onto the internet with XP to update them,because the networking won't work.

anybody have any ideas how to resolve this???