dual booting

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Makaveli

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http://apcmag.com/5485/dualbooting_vista_and_xp


im using this guide...to dual boot offcourse...and i was wondering, will this really work,because i spent over 2 hours just trying to shrink my HD due to vista loving me so much and wanting me to stay with it...because ill get extremely pissed off if XP won't work on my laptop...if anyone would want to idk,give me any details or anything reply here


i have a gateway MT3705


i tried downgrading from vista to XP before by just putting in the XP disc...but that failed by a great bunch...so i was wondering if a clean install on a clean partioned HD would work...
 
When Vista was first released at the beginning of the year I found that once you shrinh the Vista primary and create a second for XP you then have to reinstall Vista after XP goes on to see the older version added into the new boot loader. Several articles were followed including that one seen there.

Besides setting the default OS either XP or Vista in the msconfig utility one good tool found for a dual boot is the EasyBCD freeware seen at http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1

Want Vista gone instead? Download and burn GParted Live for cd 0.3.3.0 version and delete the Vista primary that way in order to create the new NTFS primary for XP. First make sure XP software/drivers are available for that make and model laptop there. You download that from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115843&package_id=173828

For the step by step documentation including screen shots, http://gparted.sourceforge.net/larry/generalities/gparted.htm

You will also need a cd or dvd burner for the 35mb iso image plus a program suited for burning it to a cd-r and making that bootable in the process. The free version of BurnOn does work well for this and can be found at http://www.burnworld.com/burnoncddvd/
 
well..i dont want vista gone completly since i dont want to risk XP not working...i have my HD shrunk and everything...im just trying to get a hold of an XP cd so i can install it...then idk how the drivers would work out for it though
 
XP will go onto a second primary easy enough and actually take over as the OS. aw yes the boot changes hands. But that's where the reinstall of Vista then corrects that as it adds the option to boot into XP under previous versions of Windows seen then on the startup screen.
 
i used that tutorial, and it worked for me. i cant remember much about it, but i did have some problems. i remember that i needed .net framework for xp, and that gparted didnt work for my computer, and thats about it.
 
For the three Net framework versions out you simply go to the MS update site if you disabled the automatic update feature in XP. The 3.0 version will part of SP3 when that finally comes out.

GParted live or not is strictly a drive partitioning tool like QParted. Only a few of the live for cd releases are platform independent meaning MS, OS X, Linux, Solaris, etc.. After using it a few times you'll get familiar with how easy it works. When first trying any new tool or program trying a practice run without making any actual changes would be the thing to do first.
 
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