Setting Up Dual Boot (XP/Vista)

[alexfriend28]

hey dude this is the problem that i got, i have VIsta as the FIrst primary DIsk, and xp as the secondary disk so i think thats why my dual boot menu is not showing, how do i make VIsta de secondary DIsk without reinstalling everything in order...? i want to do it like that cuz i don't want to lose my data...

[alexfriend28]

hey dude this is the problem that i got, i have VIsta as the FIrst primary DIsk, and xp as the secondary disk so i think thats why my dual boot menu is not showing, how do i make VIsta de secondary DIsk without reinstalling everything in order...?

[MADagain321]

cant i just install xp onto a partition on 1 harddrive i am allreaady running vista but i want to install xp onto a hardive partition but im not sure how

[watchdog3]

you change topics to much instead of staying on whats at hand.

[ApplesAreLethal]

This is 1,00,000x Easier using Linux Ubuntu -_-

[walmartisfun]

@ApplesAreLethal That's not even a real number. -_-

[ApplesAreLethal]

@walmartisfun I misplaced a comma, lolol.

[LimpTechSupport]

Hey, does the 2 seperate harddrives have to be both master devices or 1 master and 1 slave?

[kunal2045]

my OS is windows vista, and i got xp sp3 pro, and i dont know how to have two with it please reply in message

[ambudakcomel]

how to install 2 window in 1 harddisk....

1 partition for windows 7 and 1 partition for windows XP...

anyone can help me..??

[toocoded]

very helpful

[papitopinillo]

dude great video can you tell me how to dual boot vista 32 bit and 64 i do music and protools is not working with 64 bit thank a lot

[Dieby4orce]

My computer dosent even get pass the black screen it says insert boot disk and press enter

[SaucyBegger25]

you didnt need to remove any harddrives?? you make it sound so complicated. just install xp as normal first. as ya doin it partition the harddrive half n half install xp on c:\ partition, once it boots format the second partition then once its done reboot with vista dvd as normal then install vista as normal but install it on the d:\ partition when prompt(format d:\ again just to clean things) once its installed it will reboot n thats where you get the option xp/vista simple

[ComDev2]

please delete this as it is a waste of Google Server.

IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH DUAL BOOT - YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT DRIVES AND OS

[7Liquid7Luck7]

@ComDev2 hey a-hole if you don't like it go make your own video. Even if this tutorial was completely useless, and it's not, it helps someone somewhere which is a lot more than I can say for you.



[percepttube]

DELETE THIS PIECE OF **** "TUTORIAL"

[rammitt]

this was not a tutorial....just rushed gibberish!!!

[pikeman383]

I have one question.

I already have vista intalled on C: but i want to install XP on C: to.

but i CAN´T delete vista cuz my mum would kil me then XD

if i partiation the C: drive will vista be deleted?

I don´t have a D: drive

Sorry for my bad english =/

[TheEpicEffect]

i think that you cant even install xp if you already have vista because xp boot will destroy vista boot

[DivineJerry14]

lol thats retarded ur vista wont happen nothing me and my fresnz partion xp vista and windows 7 crazii

[deluxedookie]

you have to install XP first cuz vista wont let you install older versions of windows.

wich mean you have to reformat

[NeUxBlu]

lies, i just did it... No reformat

[deluxedookie]

love to see it.

[siralex64]

no u can install xp..

[Turdypie]

ive got a xp computer and a vista laptop could i copy all the files from my computer to my laptop

[ZzGORDOXzZ]

the xp and vista hard drives must on MASTER OR SLAVE ?

[devilsdance87]

forgot to add: will i have to re install vista on my new HD, and if so can i reinstall without losing all data, files and folders i already have...?

[devilsdance87]

i dont know if this question has been answered, but i have vista, i took out my old hard drive with xp (not a sata drive) i re installed xp on old drive, but system cannot boot to vista unless i unplug the old hard drive. how would i fix this problem and be able to have the choice in which system to boot to? (please try to dumb down your answer for me:P)

[bindingdeath]

like all the videos on youtube, none of them say how to REALLY do it. How do you make a partition, you should have explained that, it would have been very helpful....

Please, make another video.

[asdablade]

i have a 320 gb hard drive but i cant shrink any but 75mbs what do i do

[greenblobo9]

i have a xp hard drive and a working vista. can i use my xp hardrive as a regular hardrive or is it not compatitible?

[ranpo677]

yeah nice vid static wasn't too bad ima try put it on mah external drive or will that not work?

[wildhog38]

niec vid!

[archer7527]

hi erm is it possible to dual boot vista and xp with vista installed first on the e drive? Because in all the tutorials i have seen vista is installed on c drive and vista on e drive

[archer7527]

sorry i meant xp on e drive

[PSPwizx]

can i use an External Hard Drive to install Vista? i have XP right now.

If not, do i have to get ANOTHER INTERNAL HD? is my Dell Inspiron 1300 notebook capable of having ANOTHER HD??

[Zzer0zZ]

im pretty sure u cant.

[PSPwizx]

cant to what, i had like 5 questions... ive seen ppl do it with an external hd, i just dont have my original XP cd

[Zzer0zZ]

well i dont think that you can use an external HD unless your laptop can boot up from it (check BIOS) if not then just make a partition on your original HDD. no need to buy a new one though it is much easier. if it makes sense Message back, FYI i am a 14 yr old lol. But my dad is a veteran when it comes to computer anything.

[PSPwizx]

so what your saying is: if i get another internal HD i can dual boot. My only problem with IHD is their SO hard to install.

And i have seen tutorial videos using externalHD's

haha, im 16

[PSPwizx]

also, how large should a partition be, if i want to install Vista Basic?

[Zzer0zZ]

well it depends how large your HDD is. if you have 100GB than 50 for Vista and 25 for other and 25 for recovery/other. thats what i would do,

[PSPwizx]

what if i have a 30GB HDD??

haha, am i just out of luck?

[Zzer0zZ]

0.o im afraid so mate, u better go9ogle how to boot off External HDD. it should be easy if u can c it in BIOS

[sirfatalx]

Does this work when you install Windows 7 on Vista?

[computermaniac4]

hi, i just got a new vista computer about 2 months ago, and i was wondering if it would work smoothly with my computer with a partition?

[kgonepostl]

You don't need to install vista first people. It's just that vista comes with the partitioning program he's using. Many free programs that can be used to partition if you have xp. THERE'S NO REASON WHY YOU SHOULD HAVE TO UNINSTALL XP, INSTALL VISTA, THEN CREATE A DUALBOOT! PM ME FOR INFORMATION!

[yolsthepk]

Doesn't work on xp :@

[shorti853]

hey, can you show how to partition my hard drive so i can have vista and linux on one?

[h4ck3r809]

i need help with shrink

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[geraldtpokemon]

do you have to buy another hard drive?

[wartex8]

You don't have to, but it is a lot easier to set up dual/multi boot with multiple hard drives.

[geraldtpokemon]

after i download xp home editioin from microsoft what do i do?

do i put in on a blank cd?

[geraldtpokemon]

how did you get two hard drives?

[wartex8]

newegg(dot)com

[etoangfavoriteko]

Can the Dual-Boot menu can be turned off????

[Policestate2000]

if you have a pc with vista preinstalled and your wanting to dual boot to 2 hard drives how can you do it?, i dont have the vista cd, so can i still install XP on the second hard drive?

[wartex8]

You could install xp on the second drive but you would have to switch the primary hard drive in bios each time you would want to switch Operating Systems.

[geraldtpokemon]

could you make vid on that?

[xamRedhead]

i got a problem on shrinking my hdd volume :(

i hav a total amount of 70GB free space, but it only allows me to shrink 2MB! any idea or solution on how to shrink more than that? coz its completely rediculous if you have 70GB of free space, but then it only allows you to shrink 2MB!

PS: im using Windows Vista

[SirSigma]

I'm having a similar problem. I have half of my C drive as free space and it only allows me to shrink 21MB.

[JakesterCorp]

Hi guys i have this problem:

When i run my win xp from the bios and it starts load all the install stuff. It then changes to a black screen with this _ blinking.

after a few seconds, it comes up with an error screen that it tells me to run a thing in the command prompt. I've tried it and it didn't work! Can someone help me to fix this?

Ps: My PC is Dell XPS 420 With pre installed windows vista home premium. And i have a new partition for my disc!

[wartex8]

This happens when you try to install xp?

[Blimp01]

oh ok thanks ill reinstall vista now with XP installed on the other hard drive plugged in

[Blimp01]

Ive set up XP on one hard drive and Vista on the other hard drive, I plug them both into sata ports, on the motherboard, but theres no message to choose which one. whichever one i set to the 1st sata will boot without a message of the other OS. how can i get the message to choose what hard drive to boot off?

[wartex8]

For you to get a message you have to install vista second. (both hard drives should have been plugged in while you were installing vista)

[soundman3103]

To whitefoxx

Yes you can but you have to set them up in RAID

[whitefoxx52]

im new to building computers and want to know if i get to hard drives can i make it one as in i have two 300gb vr and want to make it 600gb

[wartex8]

It would be must simpler to use the two separate hard drives.

[mrlundt]

mamma mia

[chro123]

you should actually make a linux. Right now i am running xp and don't have any other os's. But i have 2 internal hard drives. I found out myself that if you have 2 internal hard drives, open your computer and there they are, it helps to know which one has xp running on it. Then take out the one with xp and then reboot with installation cd inside and you set it up like normal. Put the xp hard drive in and then if you want to run linux, go to the boot menu and select the hard drive that has linux.

[wartex8]

that's one way you could do it. I find a simple way of organizing the hard drives is to name them by the os they are running.

[DiscussToUnderstand]

I have looked and looked and I need you help

I have a dual core laptop with Vista preinstalled. I made a partition, and turned restarted my laptop assuming that the cd would load first so I could install xp (I need it for several programs). Unfortunately for me my laptop ignores the drive untill after the os has loaded.

help?

[wartex8]

thats odd, when you first press the power button to turn your computer on, keep pressing f8. You should get the bios menu. Look around, every bios is different, and you should find an option that asks what device to boot first. Select your cd drive. From there, installing xp should be easy. (It may be easier to install xp over vista and then install vista on the other partition)

[DiscussToUnderstand]

I accually found another way around my problem but thank you for the reply. Your videos are really good(tells you enough so you understand but not so much that it makes to feel dumb) keep them comming

[1337Wanderman]

how do i install xp on one of the partitions that i created

[wartex8]

write down the amount of space in that partition. Put in the xp install cd and when you boot off of it you have the option to select the drive or partition you want to install xp to. (pick the drive that has the same amount of space as the partition you want to install to)

[MinKo19]

that's what i keep on doing. but after there will be a blue screen error!!! :( help!

[TheOm3n]

ok thx a lot i install xp first then vista and now it works.

[wartex8]

Glad I could help, it's so much easier to set it up by installing vista second.

[TheOm3n]

I have windows vista and partition my hdd and installed xp on the other partition. Now when i start my computer it starts with windows xp . How do i switch back to my vista partition? any help pls

[wartex8]

it's easier if you install vista second. What you could do, is when you computer starts keep pressing f8. You will encounter a boot menu and you can set the other hard drive to start up first.

[brandonsexywhitaker]

can u install xp on both ?

and jus run one hard driv for programs

and one hard drive for just mp3 and so on and so on?

[wartex8]

You could. It would be more efficient to simply have one version of xp and store your different stuff in different folders. Xp might not auto set up the dual boot though.

[brandonsexywhitaker]

oh thanx man

i am new to building pcs but thats what i would like to do.

would that be difficult if it didnt set up itself. sounds pretty intimidating lol

[gyghost]

So

1. Put in a hard drive, install XP

2. Remove that hard drive, put in a new hard drive and install Vista

3. Set either as primary and you should get a dual boot menu.

Here's my question. How does the system detect there are two OS installed? Do you mind posting the boot.ini files for both OS? I'm just curious about what they look like.

And, would this work for linux, dual booting from two hard drives? That would be a nice tutorial. Dual booting linux and Windows from 2 hard drives.

[wartex8]

Keep both hard drives in. I think I may have said differently in the video but keep both in. Make sure you install a different os on each hard drive and install vista second. Vista will automatically set up a boot manager if you do it this way. Same goes with linux. If linux is installed last it will auto set up. I recommend doing it this way so you don't have to edit files like boot.ini and such.

[gyghost]

Some sites say like how you say in your video and some websites say to keep it in. Now I'm confused. I did it like you said in your videos, but with linux and windows, linux worked but windows wouldnt start.

[wartex8]

try it like this- keep both hard drives in. Install windows on one hard drive and then install linux on the other. (or install on different partitions)

[legendfly1]

i currently have vista and want to dualboot to also use xp. do i shrink volume on my hard drive and install xp via bios?

[wartex8]

You need to install vista second to set up a dual boot.

[legendfly1]

u serious. but ive seen it been done before

[wartex8]

with xp installed second?

[legendfly1]

yer

[wartex8]

From what I know you would have to manually create or find a boot manager. That would be annoying to set up and I don't know enough about it to help you out in that regard. You could try to shrink the volume and install xp. Tell me what the result is if you try that.

[legendfly1]

i shrinked the volume and formatted the partition. i then restarted with the xp cd in but found no secod partition, only one. so i didn't know what was going wrong so i just installed it on my hard drive and it deleted my recovery hard drive lol so i have to buy a recovery cd and try again coz vista is just shite

[wartex8]

You need two partitons. When you shrink the volume you have free space. Format that free space. Thats odd that you wrote over your recovery hard drive when you had the vita os as well. You should have been able to choose one or the other. Vista does have it's flaws :(

[turmoildog]

i got xp '05 but want to run other xp thats '02, how would i do the multi boot?

[wartex8]

I don't think xp alone supports dual or multi boot. You would need to install another os like vista or linux.

[dtrix92]

it does during the installation process it asks you to install on partitioned or un-partitioned HDD space, all you do is install on a different partitioned from you current OS and your done.

[wartex8]

but will it install a boot-manager or will you manually have to set one up?

[dtrix92]

I believe it uses the windows default boot manager, so it should be an automatically installed boot manager, where you select from the OS list.

[xxmastermixx]

My brother made a partition with like 9 gigs and i want it to be bigger. how can i do that?

[wartex8]

Right click it, if there is an expand option then you can expand it. (you need some unallocated space to do this). One key thing is everyone should try to partition a hard drive as a secondary hard drive meaning partition the hd your computer is not running off of. It makes it a lot easier.

[scareface999]

what boot loader did you use too get dual boot?!

[wartex8]

Vista loader. If you want to dual boot a widows os and linux then install linux 2nd. Install vista 2nd if you are dual booting xp and vista.

[cybermian]

its a very good effort u have done, plz keep it up. & make our lives easier.cheers.

[iPlayTheDrums07]

if i partition my hard drive and install have vista on one, xp on the other,

will i be able to get to my files running on xp when vista os is running and vice-versa?

thank you for answers!!!

[audioslavelover]

no, you will have to reinstall windows vista, in order to select your os on start up. If you install xp first, there will be no boot manager

[wartex8]

vista should be installed second. Sorry I didn't reply sooner. Audio is right.

[audioslavelover]

i already know how to set up dual-boot even before I knew how too. I use xp more because it goes faster that vista. I had no problems with xp. No errors which is totally wierd. because it usually errors alot.