how to dual boot?

gabbaii

gabbaii

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how would i go about dual booting xp and vista?

i know i have to install it on another partition then install xp on one, then vista on the other. any thing else i need to know?

also will my other partitions show up in vista?
 
You should first install the older OS (in this case being XP) then install the newer OS (Vista) when booting it will display a screen asking you which one you want to boot to. I think it lasts 30 seconds and then goes to the new one if you don't select one.

Vista and XP will be able to see each other, but because of a security feature in Vista XP will not be able to see all files and folders in Vista or copy everything, and Vista will be able to see all passworded account files in XP, though you MIGHT have to be a admin in Vista to see passworded account files in XP
 
XP and XP yes its legal if your licence allows two installs of your OS installed. If not its the same computer so it would be hard to fight that. If your using Vista and you upgraded from a previous version of windows using an upgrade version of Vista and you use the same cd-key to install the old version of XP agian then no its not. Vista Upgrade voids your old serial.
 
I highly recommend you partition the HD first on how you want it set up, then go install your OSes seperately. When I installed vista on my work machine it never once gave me an option for custom partitioning schemes.

Also, in vista there is no more boot.ini it is some exe file instead. Its possible but not as easy as everyone makes it out to be, but it is also not super hard.
 
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