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Dual boot (Vista is installed first then XP)

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Dual boot (Vista is installed first then XP)

Postby ViceT » Mon Feb 19, 2007 2:30 pm

Hi all,
I have installed Vista Ultimate on my machine. Now I need to install another OS (e.g. XP) on the 2nd partition of my harddrive and was wondering if there is a way to do that with VistaBOOTPro. I'd appreciate any information on this topic.

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Postby kd1966 » Mon Feb 19, 2007 6:48 pm

Hi and welcome to PROnetworks! I moved your topic here, as where it was posted is an area reserved for issues with our VistaBootPRO program.
To answer your question; you CAN install XP after Vista, but initially will lose the ability to dual boot Vista. The fix is to install and run VistaBootPRO 3.1 on XP (You'll need .NET 2.0) and simply reinstall the Vista bootloader.

EDIT: This azzumes you have some empty space that XP can create/format a partition. I wouldn't recommend using Vista to create/format the XP partition, as the NTFS versions are different.
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