VBP on dell XPS m1210 with Vista premium Preloaded (Resolved)

by **8thDayGlass** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 5:25 pm

Hello I have a new Dell M1210 that came with Vista premium
and I need to dual boot XP home. But I have no clue as to the sequence
for doing this. So far ive downloaded VistaBootpro 3.1 and all the drivers
fom my computer from dell that Xp needs. also have a 160 gig external
USB drive.

can someone tell me a step by step to do this.

Thanks in advance

Chris
8th Day Glasswerks

by **NT50** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 6:14 pm

Here is a guide for doing what you wish:

Install Windows XP in a Dual Boot with Pre-installed Windows Vista

Plus I am moving this to Vista Chat & Support

by **8thDayGlass** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 7:16 pm

Ok I followed you directions and it goes good until the new simple volume
wizard when clicking finish I get an error saying "there is not enough space available"

Edited by NT50: Changed the image to thumbnail

by **NT50** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 2:06 am

What is that I see 15.4 Gig unallocated?

by **colsaunders2** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 8:42 am

What's preventing the creation of the 15.4 GB partition is that you already have 4 primary partitions (the maximum allowed) on the disk. If you delete that 2 GB partition at the end of the drive, then you should be able to make a new 17.4 GB primary partition without any problems.

by **8thDayGlass** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 3:46 pm

colsaunders2 wrote:What's preventing the creation of the 15.4 GB partition is that you already have 4 primary partitions (the maximum allowed) on the disk. If you delete that 2 GB partition at the end of the drive, then you should be able to make a new 17.4 GB primary partition without any problems.

Ive only had this notebook a few days and all of those partitions were already on here when i got it from dell except for the 15.4g I will try to remove the 2 gig ans see what happens since it was created by dell
I did not want to mee with it.

NT50
the 15.4 was what i made for xp but could not get it assigned.

by **NT50** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 3:51 pm

could not get it assigned.........

What do you mean, if Disk Manager is showing the partition you should be able to go through he setup and assign a driver letter to it.

by **8thDayGlass** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 4:02 pm

NT50 wrote:could not get it assigned.........

What do you mean, if Disk Manager is showing the partition you should be able to go through he setup and assign a driver letter to it.

the new simple volume wizard when clicking finish just gives the same error that shows in the above screenshot. and i tried to remove the 2 gig volume and made it free space but I still get the error.

here is the new screenshot

by **8thDayGlass** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 4:17 pm

I got it to work finnally after reboot now showing 17g xp partition.

Thanks guys now I will finish the tutorial you sent

by **NT50** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 4:46 pm

Report back and let us know.

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VBP on dell XPS m1210 with Vista premium Preloaded (Resolved)

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