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09-29-2006, 08:08 PM
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Hi guys, i realy want to have a dual boot with XP and Vista on my hard drive....but first i need to know is it possible to have vista to dual boot and second how the hell do i do it? i have never needed to dual boot till now so i have never tried doing it. So i was hoping that someone has the know how? Can Anybody help?       |
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09-29-2006, 08:49 PM
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| Do you have more than one drive...or more than one partition?
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09-29-2006, 08:56 PM
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| I have one hard drive and one parttion i have made partitions before but only of blank drives after i have formated them so im not sure how to make a new partition without overwriting XP |
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09-30-2006, 11:16 AM
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| Before you go further - you are going to need probably about 25 gigs mininmum - have you got that? To repartition the easy way, use a program such as Partition magic, it can do it insituu without disturbing you XP installation. The harder way is to get hold of a copy of Acronis drive image. Make an image of your XP installation and also use the option to make a recovery CD. Once you have done that, you can reformat your HD and partition it, you will need, to be sure, about 15gigs for the Vista installation.. Now if you boot from the Acronis CD, it will offer you the option to clone your saved image to your new partition, with resizing or not, as you wish.. You will then have XP back on your desired partition and bootable. You can now install Vista on the prepared partition and it will automatically set up a dual boot for you. It sounds a hard way to go but, as an accustomed Drive image user, it has always worked for me. But, the old established rule - BACKUP before doing anything. |
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09-30-2006, 11:26 AM
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| Thanks i tryed the easy option and got a copy of partition magic and made a new partition gave it about 60gigs. So i guess its just as simple as installing vista on the new partition mabey? well atlest i hope its that simple :-) |
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