Help installing XP on a new Vista machine
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Help installing XP on a new Vista machine
by dalemi » Wed Feb 14, 2007 10:56 pm
Hi, everyone. I actually don
by kd1966 » Thu Feb 15, 2007 12:40 am
Hi and welcome to PROnetworks! What you want to do is not the best approach, but it can work. Normally you install the oldest Windows OS first, then work up to the newer, but sometimes things aren't perfect............
With a 250GB HDD, you should have plenty of room for both OS's; here's the thing though, if you are using the entire 250GB for Vista, I'm not sure you will be able to shrink it; however, if you have enough room for XP, simply leave some empty HDD space so XP can create/format this partition, as the Vista NTFS is "newer" than XP's NTFS and XP may not recognize the partition if you create/format this partition in Vista
EDIT: Also you will need to download/install/run VistaBootPRO 3.1 inside XP once you get it installed; then just REINSTALL the Vista Bootloader
by NT50 » Thu Feb 15, 2007 2:09 am
If you are wanting to use the first harddrive you can try to shrink the 250 gig to smaller partitions. I would take the 250 gig and partition it to 3 partitions. 1. Vista 2. XP 3. data storage.
If you get the partitions shrinked.. DO NOT use a third party partition program
If Vista is already installed on partition 1, you can boot to XP Cd and install XP on partition 2. Reboot and install VistaBootPro and use it to reinstall Vista Bootloader.
Be sure when you are installing XP that you format the drive with XP.
If you get the partitions shrinked.. DO NOT use a third party partition program
If Vista is already installed on partition 1, you can boot to XP Cd and install XP on partition 2. Reboot and install VistaBootPro and use it to reinstall Vista Bootloader.
Be sure when you are installing XP that you format the drive with XP.
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by NT50 » Thu Feb 15, 2007 2:51 am
dalemi wrote:Thanks for the comments. Do you think it would be better to reformat the drive, partition it, install XP first and then dual boot with Vista?
Yes!!
Boot to XP discs
partition the drive
install XP on second partition
boot to Vista DVD
advance install vista on first partition
It should see XP and you should be able to dual boot.
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by JabbaPapa » Thu Feb 15, 2007 4:14 am
you're on a good track here 
If you're not scared of a full clean installation of both Windows versions, then it's easiest to install the XP on partition 1, Vista on partition 2, and leave a hefty partition 3 for the shared data
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