Comments on: Dual Boot Windows Vista and XP

By: Mind Ruin

Mind Ruin — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:27:01 +0000

I have always wanted to do this but had no idea how. Do you think my computer could handle booting both of these at once?

By: Robert Mutyaba

Robert Mutyaba — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:14:46 +0000

Oh yeah, one more thing – funny though. XpSP2 is the best for this kind of thing.

Robert

By: Robert Mutyaba

Robert Mutyaba — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:10:43 +0000

Two things I will tell you:
1. The blue screen can be avoided by changing the bios setting of the hard drive to “compatible mode”. Xp is not seeing the drive sometimes, at all.

2. These steps are fantastic and you dont even need the partition magic or expert. See below:

https://windowssecrets.com/2008/02/14/01-Make-your-computer-dual-boot-Vista-and-XP

All the best!

Robert

By: Bobtow

Bobtow — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:46:34 +0000

I tried to install XP Professiional Sp3 on a Vista Premium and got a message that it was incompatible with the hardware. The XP could not match with the Vista hardware.

By: BB

BB — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:30:58 +0000

I had to do the “f6″ for “3rd party drivers” and used the “OS install only” driver from the dell website:
Intel Matrix Storage Manager, v.7.6.1.1002, A07

It recognized the drive and enabled me to load XP64. Before I would get a BSOD of it got to the “starting windows” part (which I think was the beginning of the “copying files” part)

By: jpar

jpar — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:48:07 +0000

sorry which can be FIXED with the above vbt pro.

By: jpar

jpar — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:43:57 +0000

It depends on youre setup vista ie Vista load boot on other hard drive or partition in youre case xp partn/drive so format xp no boot this happened to me ran Vista repair from the disk and it fix the boot also use vista boot pro.the other thing that might happen is you have boot selection for xp / vista which can be with the above vbt pro. I have xp64 ( the fastest os around) and vista premium installed.I have an old sempron 2800+ 1 gb ram and I play farcry 2 on high on xp64. Had to lower it on vista all the trimmings off.Somthing else I though was not possible was I have farcry2 INSTALLED on xp64 yet I can play it on vista with a shotcut also some software works both way ?? I hope I was of some help.

By: pythonsnake

pythonsnake — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:47:58 +0000

i ask this cause i had problems with vista when i didn’t really understand it.ie getting games to work.now i know how to install any game i want to run on vista so i dont need xp anymore but my xp is the boot manager so i think and please correct me if im wrong if i remove xp vista wont start at all.i need a way to remove the part that make xp the boss and bring vista in to play without formatting.can you help?.
thanks

By: pythonsnake

pythonsnake — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:41:05 +0000

hi when we have done all this and the time comes to remove xp and just run vista.how do i reverse so i only have vista with out losing vista as well.and also how do i reverse the hard drive partition so i only have one hard drive pat.
thanks

By: Socker22

Socker22 — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:57:38 +0000

You have all wrong.

When it comes to install XP you have to change in your Bios. Look for a menu that says AHCI (Advanced Host Controller Interface) or something like native and compatible mode. You have to either shut off AHCI completly or just change Native to compatible mode. Then xp will find your harddisk so you can make your installation.!