Dual Boot Vista and XP - RTM x64 and XP Pro Boot

**driverdownloads** · 19-Mar-2007, 09:46 PM

Question: Hey hey everyone,

After having Vista rename my old XP primary partition I decided to start clean...a new day if you will.

I install Vista x64 on my RAID 0 set and gave it 100gb of the stripe. 50gb are left and I want to put XP Pro back on that so I can have a printer that works and a couple of video games that rock more with SLI enabled on the GPUs.

I've read a lot about dual booting Vista and XP, and even Linux...but most of these articles reference RC1 and RC2 Vista releases, which I find to not work with the instructions.

Can someone please give me a game plan to tackle this so that I'm not installing boot loaders all night long.

**driverdownloads** · 19-Mar-2007, 09:46 PM

I currently have both installed. It went down like this:

1) I installed Vista on C dive:
2) Next I installed XP on the X drive:
This caused the XP loader to take over and Vista was not an option to boot to.
3) I did the Vista recovery for the startup options...that took two seconds but Vista doesn't see it.

I'll take a look at both of you folks options tonight and will repost tomorrow.

19-Mar-2007, 09:46 PM	#1 (permalink)
driverdownloads Fixed Error! Posts: 1,672 Join Date: Mar 2007 Rep Power: 3 IM:	Dual Boot Vista and XP - RTM x64 and XP Pro Boot Question: Hey hey everyone, After having Vista rename my old XP primary partition I decided to start clean...a new day if you will. I install Vista x64 on my RAID 0 set and gave it 100gb of the stripe. 50gb are left and I want to put XP Pro back on that so I can have a printer that works and a couple of video games that rock more with SLI enabled on the GPUs. I've read a lot about dual booting Vista and XP, and even Linux...but most of these articles reference RC1 and RC2 Vista releases, which I find to not work with the instructions. Can someone please give me a game plan to tackle this so that I'm not installing boot loaders all night long.

19-Mar-2007, 09:46 PM	#2 (permalink)
driverdownloads Fixed Error! Posts: 1,672 Join Date: Mar 2007 Rep Power: 3 IM:	Re: Dual Boot Vista and XP - RTM x64 and XP Pro Boot I currently have both installed. It went down like this: 1) I installed Vista on C dive: 2) Next I installed XP on the X drive: This caused the XP loader to take over and Vista was not an option to boot to. 3) I did the Vista recovery for the startup options...that took two seconds but Vista doesn't see it. I'll take a look at both of you folks options tonight and will repost tomorrow.

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