[Chuft]

Thank you. I couldn't make out the photo. When I opened it it was pretty blurry. I'll give it a try in a few. MY only concern is that this is an HP my wife bought me as a gift. Not particularly powerful, but better than my old Dell. I yanked out the HDD that had Vista on it. put in a new drive and installed XP, so I could run some programs Vista refused to handle. Now I've got them both back in, and I'm already tired of going into BIOS to switch the HDD I want to boot from.

[Grav!ty]

Let us know how it goes Chuft and please post for help if you need it

[Chuft]

Another quick question. When I boot to XP the drive letters are:
Disk 0 HP (D: ) Recovery (E: )
Disk 1 (C: )

When I boot to Vista Yhe drive letters are:

Disk 0 HP (C: ) Recovery (D: )
Disk 1 (F: )

Is that going to make a difference when I set up the dual boot? I'm still having some driver issues in XP. I can't seem to find the drivers for a PCI Device or a Universal Serial Bus Controler. THe system came with the Media readers, and some HP swapable drive.

[Grav!ty]

The drive letter changing of Vista is a virtual one from the perspective of Windows XP and makes no difference as the "real" drive lettering shows up again when booting to XP

This can be confusing but in fact is quite helpful once one comes to terms with it

[Chuft]

So it's ok to follow the instructions on page 1? I don't have to do anything different? I'm begining to miss the "good ole days" of DOS.

[Grav!ty]

So it's ok to follow the instructions on page 1? I don't have to do anything different? I'm begining to miss the "good ole days" of DOS.

If your situation is the same as at the top of the thread you should be fine following those directions. To improve the quality of the images just maximize them and then click them once

[Chuft]

LOL. OK. I feel like an idiot now. I'm sure you're thinking, "Wow, it'll be a miricle if his computer doesn't explode when he tries this". Thanks for the info. I'm going to give it a try as soon as I get off of work.

[Grav!ty]

No need to feel that way at all Chuft. When things are new to us we all feel at a bit of a disadvantage. Most of us had to ask how to use and upload images at some point

[Chuft]

Didn't work for me. I don't know if theres something different because Vista came preinstalled on this PC or nor

[Chuft]

Tought I had it working for a minute, but when i tried to boot to XP it told me it was missing ntldr, and wanted me to put in my XP installation cd t repair.