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scsa20

join:2007-12-04
Queen Creek, AZ

reply to tahoejeff

Re: [Vista] Call for assistance - Vista FAQ

said by tahoejeff:

(1) Yes, create a new partion and install XP there.
doesn't the older o/s have to be installed first?
It's normally preferred to load the older version of the OS first then install the newer version but there's always been ways to work around it, back in the days of XP and 98 and what not it just the matter of modifying the boot.ini file to point to the partition data, with Vista it's a bit harder to do but still do able.


Dogwood
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join:2001-01-14
Texas

said by scsa20:

said by tahoejeff:

(1) Yes, create a new partion and install XP there.
doesn't the older o/s have to be installed first?
It's normally preferred to load the older version of the OS first then install the newer version but there's always been ways to work around it, back in the days of XP and 98 and what not it just the matter of modifying the boot.ini file to point to the partition data, with Vista it's a bit harder to do but still do able.
No, with Vista it's actually easier to install XP after Vista.
But, no matter which way you do it, the use of VistaBoot Pro will make your dual boot life much nicer.
»www.vistabootpro.org/
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scsa20

join:2007-12-04
Queen Creek, AZ

I thought you'd had to jump throw some sort of loop in order for you to run the needed code that the vista's boot loader uses, or I might of read it wrong....

And yes, vista boot pro would make life soooo much easlier


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