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installing winXP on Vista Home Premium Notebook[RESOLVED]

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installing winXP on Vista Home Premium Notebook[RESOLVED]

Postby stipe » Mon Mar 05, 2007 3:17 am

I have HP dv9208nr notebook with VistaHomePremium OS.
I tried to install XP on separate partition but now i can not boot to Vista.

What i did:
1- shrink vista partition to make room for XP
2- tried to install XP while Vista was still running (that did not work)
3- restarted with XP CD and installed XP in separate partition
4- computer boots fine but only to XP

Now i have three partitions on my HD:
1-Vista partition
2-XP partition
3-recovery partition

Is there any way to get notebook to dualboot?

Operating System System Model
Windows Vista Home Premium (build 6000) Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion dv9000 (RP114UA#ABA) Rev 1
System Serial Number: CNF70542D1
Enclosure Type: Notebook
Processor a Main Circuit Board b
1.60 gigahertz AMD Turion 64 X2 (2 installed)
64 kilobyte primary memory cache
512 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: Quanta 30B9 65.26
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
BIOS: Hewlett-Packard F.25 12/18/2006
Drives Memory Modules c,d
240.06 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
213.74 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4084N ATA Device [CD-ROM drive]

WDC WD12 00BEVS-60LAT SCSI Disk Device (120.03 GB) -- drive 0
WDC WD12 00JB-00GVC0 USB Device [Hard drive] (120.03 GB) -- drive 1 958 Megabytes Installed Memory

Slot 'DIMM 1' has 512 MB
Slot 'DIMM 2' has 512 MB
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Postby yeshuas » Mon Mar 05, 2007 3:34 am

Can you post your disk management console so can see how your drives are configured
Need to see what your boot.ini file says
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Postby kd1966 » Mon Mar 05, 2007 4:50 pm

Hi and welcome to PROnetworks stipe! From the sounds of it, you can only boot to XP at this point, correct? The short story of this is you have (temporarily) killed your Vista bootloader by installing XP, but this can be fixed by downloading/installing/running VistaBootPRO 3.1 and going to the Bootloader section and REINSTALLING the Vista bootloader. Enjoy the site!
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Postby stipe » Tue Mar 06, 2007 5:35 pm

Thank you guys.

I was ready to take my notebook back to store and get one with XP. I have a lot of SW that i need on regular basis and it just does not work on Vista.

Your VistaPRO 3.1 solved my problem and i have multiboot option at power up.

Initialy i was getting /ntldr error at XP start up, but i found solution on this forum.

Thank you again.

This is great Forum and i will be visiting again.

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Postby Trooper47 » Tue Mar 06, 2007 7:06 pm

I have the same problem but the reinstalling bootlaoder option has no affect,
chek the post @ http://www.pro-networks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=90038&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
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