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Windows Vista: How do I dual boot my computer to run Windows XP and Vista?
- 10/24/08 4:00 PM
Microsoft SNITCHS you!
by techtype - 10/21/08 5:40 AM In reply to: Dual booting XP and Vista by SpeedyfangerUsually the Ethernet activity light means Vi$ta is snitching on you. Usually Micro$oft will not install anything without asking first.
I tried Vista Boot-Then read the instructions
by deserttaxguy - 10/21/08 10:38 AM In reply to: How do I dual boot my computer to run Windows XP and Vista? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I couldn't really make it work to run the full system but then I checked in to the Vista legacy compatibility driver or what ever it is, and that worked better than worrying about leaving XP for Vista.
Its a big hassle to migrate all your custom software, but for those few "oldies" that you have to run, having your xp files loaded on another drive worked fine for me. I only needed to use it for 2 technical work related programs that can't work with Vista.
Which Vista Edition to buy...
by fjord_fox - 10/22/08 11:07 AM In reply to: How do I dual boot my computer to run Windows XP and Vista? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I'll let all the others answer your question, but I want you to know, so you don't run into the same problem that I did, about which Vista edition to buy. For that, I have to ask you which XP edition you have.
If you have XP Home Edition, you can upgrade to Vista Home Edition, Home Premium Edition, the Ultimate Edition, or even the Business Edition.
If you have XP Media Center Edition, then you can upgrade to either Vista Home Premium Edition, Ultimate Edition, or Business Edition.
HOWEVER, if you are like me, and you have XP Professional, you can ONLY upgrade to either the Ultimate Edition or the Business Edition. Therefore, if you have XP Professional and you want to have the Vista Home Premium, then you have to buy the FULL edition, and then you have to format your hard drive and start from a clean installation.
For me, now that I have tried (and didn't like) the Home Premium, if I were to go back to Vista, I would choose the Ultimate Edition, because it is the same thing as the Home Premium, but it has more features--features that I am used to using in XP Pro and that I do not want to do without. Besides, it will stop the advertisement that you will get seemingly every time you start Internet Explorer, saying, "You ONLY have Home Premium. Upgrade to Ultimate!"
Vista
by buvidya - 10/23/08 9:28 AM In reply to: Which Vista Edition to buy... by fjord_foxI have Original Vista home premium alredy using.Not necessry to update for my usage
Two ways,
by micallef_4 - 10/23/08 8:38 AM In reply to: How do I dual boot my computer to run Windows XP and Vista? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Hi Jay,
I had the same problem like you did before, and all you have to do, is have two hard drives, and when you're installing Vista, make sure you install it on the other hard drive, otherwise it will upgrade your XP to Vista. You have to make sure to have a retail bootable version of Vista. After you install Vista, when you start your PC, you will get a short menu telling you which operating system to use, just select it with your keyboard.
If you feel unsafe about that method, like i was, open your PC and unplug the power supply of the hard drive you have XP on. Then, install Vista normally, it will keep on going with the installation, since it only detects one hard drive and when you're done just turn off your PC and plug in the other hard drive. The only drawback is, that with this method, you don't get the menu asking you to chose which operating system to load. You'll have to go through the BIOS, (normally press the DEL key before windows starts booting), choose the BOOT menu, choose select hard drive to boot from, and give it the other hard drive. Then press F10or go to exit, and choose save your changes and exit, press OK, the PC reboots and you're successfully swapped which OS to boot from.
Note: The mouse doesn't work when in BIOS, you navigate with the keyboard.
If you don't have a second hard drive you'll be forced to partition your current hard drive, which involves formatting your hard drive, so I'll use the other hard drive method. If there is another way for it on one hard drive, I don't know it. 
Good luck,
Mikey
It's very easy to do this in 5 basic steps
by camp88 - 10/24/08 6:34 PM In reply to: How do I dual boot my computer to run Windows XP and Vista? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
1. Buy an Apple computer.
2. Install either Parallels or VMware Fusion
3. Install your Vista and XP Pro OS's
4. Run them both simultaneously without any problem
5. Think different
Note: As an added bonus you will also run Apple's OS
Mac
by Donh82 - 10/24/08 6:34 PM In reply to: How do I dual boot my computer to run Windows XP and Vista? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Forget Vista and XP, sell or donate that PC and get a Mac.
Why screw around with viruses and malware when you don't have
to with Mac. You can also easily set up the mac to boot into XP & Vista.
Reasons to not go Mac.
by consaka - 10/24/08 10:56 PM In reply to: Mac by Donh82Well this is really pretty easy. Most of it is $$$$$$$ That alone is a good enough reason for me. The second reason is flexibility and compatibility. And you can also throw in a little hardware loyalty and or favoritism.
Personally I like my AMD 64 Machine. It is Fast I can run my business on it and play my favorite games on it and when I buy software I dont have to "wonder" if my MAC will support it. When I want to upgrade my system to a better graphics card etc I don't have to wonder if I can even find one much less if it will work. Mac's great resistance to viruses etc comes from two things. One is its proprietary way of doing things which means limited options to me and higher cost to me. The other is the fact that nobody that writes viruses wants to mess with something that only a very few use.
To put it simply. Macs do not have the flexibility that most users want. The downside of viruses is small to say the least, what with many programs out there doing a great job of protecting PC's and many of them are? you got it! Free!!
Easybcd +Step by Step Tutorial
by Hovi1768 - 10/24/08 6:51 PM In reply to: How do I dual boot my computer to run Windows XP and Vista? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Download easybcd
http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1
then head here.
http://apcmag.com/how_to_dual_boot_vista_and_xp_with_vista_installed_first__the_stepbystep_guide.htm
It could not be any easier than following this simple tutorial.
Works like a charm for me.
of course
by rubenalcala - 10/24/08 8:31 PM In reply to: How do I dual boot my computer to run Windows XP and Vista? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Push "F1" and follow the windows' instructions, write: "two systems in one disk". O.K ?
Perdon por ser tan laconico. De hecho puedes trabajar un equipo con tantos sistemas operativos como te permitan los USB que le puedas conectar (miles), ademas de un sistema en tu disco principal. Pero se entiende que solo quieres tener dos sistemas operativos de Microsoft.
Lo unico que debes hacer es partir en dos o mas tu disco duro e instalar tus sistemas. Sigue con cuidado la ayuda en linea que te da Windows al presionar la tecla de funcion "F1" y pedirle ayuda para "two systems in one disk".
Espero te sirva, my friend.
The best way I do it
by JorgeS18 - 10/24/08 9:56 PM In reply to: How do I dual boot my computer to run Windows XP and Vista? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
The way to do a dual boot is to partition the drive and to install XP first on one partition and Vista on the other. However due to the low prices on hard drives these days ( the other day I bought a 1 terabyte Samsung HD for $112 ) is to have two hard drives. Then you put the XP install disk on the DVD drive and boot the computer from the DVD drive, install XP on whatever drive you want. And then do the same thing with Vista on the other drive. When you install Vista it will search every hard drive for other operating systems and it will find XP install and automatically let you install Vista for dual boot. That way you have both operating systems on two different drives so in case one operating system has a problems or fails you can format it without compromising the other OS. Even better you can access files ( not run programs ) like videos, music, documents, etc from one OS while running the other one.
Dual Boot not necessary
by papa54 - 10/24/08 10:09 PM In reply to: How do I dual boot my computer to run Windows XP and Vista? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
ok as you are, so was i.i looked at some vista units when vista hit the shelves, invested about 1,000 and was not happy at all. it was a stubborn self centered non user friendly system. i tried 3 different units and none suited me as i used a lot of 32 bit programs for video and some music. i wanted a user friendly system that does what i tell it to do and not a system that tells me how things are gonna be done. welp with all that said, it gives you the same background as i feel you are thinking since you wanna dual boot. welp if your looking at a notebook or perhaps a desktop i must say things have changed a great deal since the older vista that was worthless as a user friendly OS.
now you can buy a 64 bit machine with Vista Home Premium and it will allow you to run either 32 bit or 64 bit programs at will without partioning a HD for each system, it even gives you the user a choice of the older menu system or a newer view. myself i chose the "Classic View" as that was what i was used to. so there ya have both systems seemingly running at the same time and with ease and no going back to mama microsoft to get permission to run it. if you have a 32 bit program, run it, and if you need a 64 bit program, run it.
i would not have mentioned anything but felt ya had experienced a bad situation with the then new vista as i had. well out with the old new and in with the true operating system. "vista home premium" just be sure you get vista home premium..and not one of the other vista units. not because they will be the old vista but because i have no experience to talk about them. there are a few differences in control panel, no "add/remove" its been changed to "programs and features"
let your once held fears go and try one as i did and remember if you dont like the thing most places will do a full refund if returned within 15 to 30 days. beware best buy, they have a restocking fee. i feel sure you will absolutely love the vista system now compared to what they once had. read about the choices premiums or whatever. mine is a HP notebook "vista home premium" DV2945SE and i love it more each day. the final choice is yours of course. but this thing has not once failed me, in fact since i have broadband i unhook the workhorse and hook this laptop ot notebook up and can download at blazing speed of 171 mb program in about 3 minutes flat.if i were not so confident about losing the dual boot i would'nt have said a thing.
My Dual Boot
by Major Pain51 - 10/24/08 11:16 PM In reply to: Dual Boot not necessary by papa54My 1 yr old Gateway FX FV quadcore extreme, 4 GB RAM,2x 250 GB HDD,8800GTX (overclocked<factory)video card,w/Vista Ultimate, was letting me down in the gaming department. Vista was NOT backwards compatible with most of my XP game collection and it also had problems with gaming hardware. So I chose to Dual Boot, by buying a new HDD Baracuda 750 GB HDD @ $140 and a new licenced copy of Windows XP PRO W/SP 3 @$140 and paid $160 to have it professionally installed. PC shop had to go and find all the non security drivers to do the install. To operate Vista side I just turn on my towers power. To operate the XP side I hit power button then wait for first screen (with dual boot listed as KEY F10) I then keep tapping the F10 key until I get a screen with hard drives listed, next I select the new 750GB hard drive with arrow keys and hit enter. I purchased ESET NOD32 Antivirus and one purchase covers both operating systems. Same goes for my SUPERAntiSpyware coverage. I have no more problems with gaming on the XP side with older games and have some newer games on the Vista side. I have been told that any program I put on the XP side will only use one core of my PCs 4. However on the Vista side all 4 cores are used. I made the wrong decision in buying this PC with Vista installed. At the time of my purchase many promises were made about how well Vista would game. This proved not to be true. It was an over $500 mistake on my part.
its possible
by ikp4success - 10/24/08 11:36 PM In reply to: How do I dual boot my computer to run Windows XP and Vista? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
if its on the same hard disk is possible but u need large hard disk with almost 2gb ram and almost 2.17ghertz speed to run those operating system becuase vista is not anyhow operating system if you dont these am telling you your hard disk will crash ...you wont even enjoy your system anymore...i have used two xp on my system i know what i saw..nobody told me to use one imediately..
if you want to do it load xp 1st leave some hard disk memory for vista after loading xp then load vista with remaining hard disk memory. Wish your sytem gud luck....i pity the hard disk ,,,
yes atleast win xp pro 32 bit and vista home premium 64
by justchuck69 - 10/24/08 11:40 PM In reply to: How do I dual boot my computer to run Windows XP and Vista? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
well i know that win xp pro 32 bit and vista home premium 64 bit can both boot from the same drive as i am doing that right now
the only difficulty was that vista was on my drive first ( so i had to use my vista disk to reinstall the vista boot loader)
i just went into the vista disk manager and resized my disk in to two equal drives and then i installed win xp pro on drive d: but at first vista would not load ( the boot loader from win xp pro did not even see thew c: drive with vista so i used the disk to reinstall the vista boot loader and everything was fine after that but i do think that someone was right as i think that the system restore does funny thing between vista and win xp pro)
yes win xp pro is much faster than vista ( ie with ubuntu and win xp pro all my devices worked right out of the box but i had to wait for 4 month for my epson printer to work properly and five months for my realtek sound chip to sound as good in vista as it did in ubuntu or win xp pro)
my comp is a dual core AMD x2 4200 with 2 gb of ddr2 ram @667
250 gb hdd (125 for each partition)
Logitech X-540 5.1 Speakers
HP 21 inch CRT ( A4576A Actually made by Sony for HP )
GL AND TC
Chuck
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