What I needed I faced a dilemma. Preparation Assumptions: In this tutorial, it is assumed that you have a single hard disk in your computer, and your computer meets Windows Vista's system requirements. Planning your disk configuration The first thing to do when preparing a dual-boot is to plan how you will configure your hard drive.
I have partitioned the disk as illustrated below: Partitioning the disk I happened to have a second installation of Windows XP on a separate hard drive, and I thus used Windows XP's diskmgmt. Installing Windows Vista Before we can actually install Vista, there is an important thing we must do, viz. Type the following: diskpart select disk 0 select partition 1 active Close the command prompt and click Next. Proceed with the Vista installation as usual. Adding XP back into Vista's boot menu Now that you have Vista installed and working, you may have noticed that there is no way to get into XP.
Conclusion Now that you have Windows XP and Vista installed on the same computer, you may install drivers and software. Comments 5 Skip to comment form. I followed this tutorial with Windows 7 instead of Vista and this worked flawlessly! Create two partitions, C and D.
Install XP on D. I remember from previous experiences that XP still called its drive C even though it is technically D. First of all, drive letters are defined within the context of an operating system not the BIOS.
Therefore, the idea of XP "calling its drive C even though it is technically D" isn't entirely correct. Second, XP always calls the active partition on the first hard drive "C:" in the installer stage. It doesn't matter what size the partitions are. Of course, if neither partition is marked as active, it might choose based on the size or order of partitions Third, the main point of this tutorial was the separation of both systems. Even if you successfully install XP on C: and Vista on "D:" the Vista installer still calls the active partition "C:" but renames the system partition to C: even if it was different in the installer window , it would work perfectly, EXCEPT for the fact that Vista's boot files will be on the active partition in this case, the one XP is on.
This would prevent you from just deleting the XP partition, and would give you issues if you're trying to boot from GRUB for example.
Never once had any issues with it or formatting the second Partition. Though with the advent of Windows 7, I forgo installing XP. It works just fine This tutorial specifically addresses how to separate both operating systems completely and ensure that they both boot independently by simply switching the "active" bit.
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