vista Dual boot

zparker · Post by **zparker** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 9:23 am

I have not installed my 2nd 320gb sata drive and need to start learning vista for future job reasons. I dont see a problem with a dual boot but was wondering if it has been attempted or if any of you see a issue with it. Apot your input would be greatly appreciated too since you have loaded it...

Post by **Apoptosis** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 11:17 am

not looked into dual-boot yet to be honest!

zparker · Post by **zparker** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 2:53 pm

I would assume its the same as previous windows configs. I will have to try it install it on the 2nd drive and hope i get the os selection screen

SAMSAMHA · Post by **SAMSAMHA** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 5:21 pm

should be an easy job, just be sure that you install xp first and then install vista, then the boot loader will automatically created to allow you to choose.

KnightRid · Post by **KnightRid** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 6:34 am

Yes I agree with Sam - from what i have read you have to install XP FIRST then install Vista. Vista uses a new boot loader.

Mike

zerocool84 · Post by **zerocool84** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 5:38 pm

I haven't done it since the RC2 but I had two partitions and installed vista on the empty partition. Worked pefectly. Boot loader would ask which OS I would want to boot into: Vista or "Previous Windows OS." Hope this helps.

Nuxil1 · Post by **Nuxil1** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 2:54 pm

I had Vista installed in a dual boot situation. Worked fine until I wanted to get rid of the Vista partition then ran into boot problems. I finally found a free little proggie called vista boot pro I think and it fixed up all my problems. Had a bit of a problem getting rid of the vista partition as well. I tried partition magic, wouldnt work. I also tried booting from a live linux cd and it wouldnt let me delete it. I searched around and found a partition manager that did work and all was good.

theugdude · Post by **theugdude** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 2:41 pm

I have vista and XP but I have had problems with Firefox in Vista. I first installed firefox in the XP and then I installed in Vista. For some reason I could not start in it Vista it gave an error about a previous install of the firefox. So I uninstalled it from Vista. It works fine in XP.

amdme127 · Post by **amdme127** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 3:52 pm

I run both in dual boot and vista found my xp pro and set it up automatically

Get the alpha 2 version of the firefox 3.0 known as Gran Paradiso and it works with vista

http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/in ... 02/07/136/

hope that helps

zparker · Post by **zparker** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 4:33 pm

sweet, since i already have xp sp2 runnin i will just add 2nd hard drive and add vista to it. Thanks

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