how to install XP side by side with VIsta

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danny_isr · #1 Post by **danny_isr** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 6:59 pm

subject saying it all....

i want to have a boot manager. i understand that i need to create another partition (primary) for VISTA. but where the boot manager comes from ?

thanks Danny

#2 Post by **GomJabbar** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 7:46 pm

If you install Vista on a machine that already has XP, then Vista will install a boot manager for you. You do lose the ability to boot into Rescue and Recovery though, unless you use the Rescue and Recovery - Recovery Repair Diskette.

danny_isr · #3 Post by **danny_isr** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 7:47 pm

i want to intall XP to a VISTA machine

The Spirit of X21 · #4 Post by **The Spirit of X21** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 10:18 pm

Perhaps this would help:

http://www.pro-networks.org/forum/about88231.html

danny_isr · #5 Post by **danny_isr** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 10:24 pm

thanks ! i will try it. as long i still don't have anything important installed on this new machine , this is the time.

that way if Vista won't support everything i got , i have a way out and back.

jgrobertson · #6 Post by **jgrobertson** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 8:16 am

I installed the Virtual PC from MS (free) and then installed XP inside that. Seams to be doing OK.

how to install XP side by side with VIsta

how to install XP side by side with VIsta

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