installing XP onto VISTA machine
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From: LD5SZRA on 2 May 2010 15:44 If you want to avoid problems down the line, I suggest backup everything you have got on C and D drive (i.e. Vista and recovery drives) using Acronis or Norton Ghost 15. Then reformat everything using Windows XP CD and recreate the partition using the same CD. Then install XP first then Install Vista on D drive. This way you have got dual boot on your system and at boot time you will have 30 seconds by default to choose which Os you want to boot into. The purpose of the backups is to have something to go back to just in case it doesn't work first time round. Multiple boot is always Windows 2000, then XP, then Vista then Windows 7. We have got a system on which we have Dos 6.22/Windows 3.10, Windows 95, Windows98/SE, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 7 though no body uses it but we need it just in case we want to test something out. Incidentally ignore Twayne because he is a known troll on these newsgroups and he knows nothing but how to abuse people. hth aa wrote: > > Have HP Pavioin with VISTA, one physical drive (C:) with four partitions on > it. > C: is the one with VISTA > D: recovery > E and F - logical partitions for data storage. > Want to install XP into one of the existong partitions. > However when the installation process come to the screen to select a > partition it shows no partition at all. Instead it shows four things which > look like drive placeholders, each saying that there is no drive in it -- THE INFORMATION IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. LD5SZRA DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. IN NO EVENT SHALL LD5SZRA OR ITS ASSOCIATES BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER INCLUDING DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS OR SPECIAL DAMAGES, EVEN IF LD5SZRA OR ITS ASSOCIATES HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES SO THE FOREGOING LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY. Copyright LD5SZRA 2010.
From: Bernd on 2 May 2010 18:48 -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > > XP can be installed on any partition > > but the boot files must always be on the active primary... > Using the standard setup ? Bernd
From: philo on 2 May 2010 20:10
On 05/02/2010 05:48 PM, Bernd wrote: > > > -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > > >> >> XP can be installed on any partition >> >> but the boot files must always be on the active primary... >> > Using the standard setup ? > > Bernd Yes... XP can be installed on any partition (not on an external USB drive) but no matter where it's installed...the boot files...by default will end up on the active primary. That's true of all versions of Windows from win95 and up Installing XP after Vista is a recipe for disaster though a third party boot manager should be able to handle it or a Vista repair might do the trick |