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OK... excuse the title... but here's my situation. I'm running XP on a 40 Gig drive and have a free 20 Gig drive on which to run Vista. Since active brain cells are at a premium this weekend, I am looking for the simplest path to do a dual boot with both OS. I am more than a bit apprehensive in doing this and like the notion of having an XP safety net available.
Suggestions folks? A free case of LaBatts or Molson to the first person to come up with an approach that will get me through this.

Create a new partition on your drive with Partition Magic no less than 12 gig. Assign it a drive letter and make it a primary partition ,Format it NTFS. Reboot your machine and let Partition magic do its thing. (Takes awhile). After rebooting again into Win XP, run Vista setup and direct the setup routine to install to the new partition. After setup you will get a boot menu allowing you to boot either XP or Vista. I found a utility also that allows you to alter the boot menu from a user interface to make it a little more user friendly... cant recall the name but after I figure it out I will post it. This worked fine for me and Vista is mind blowingly beautiful and functional.
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"HagarTheHorrible" wrote:

OK... excuse the title... but here's my situation. I'm running XP on a 40 Gig drive and have a free 20 Gig drive on which to run Vista. Since active brain cells are at a premium this weekend, I am looking for the simplest path to do a dual boot with both OS. I am more than a bit apprehensive in doing this and like the notion of having an XP safety net available.
Suggestions folks? A free case of LaBatts or Molson to the first person to come up with an approach that will get me through this.

OK... excuse the title... but here's my situation. I'm running XP on a 40 Gig drive and have a free 20 Gig drive on which to run Vista. Since active brain cells are at a premium this weekend, I am looking for the simplest path to do a dual boot with both OS. I am more than a bit apprehensive in doing this and like the notion of having an XP safety net available.
Suggestions folks? A free case of LaBatts or Molson to the first person to come up with an approach that will get me through this.

You must have second primary partition for Vista. You can create it in DiskManager. When installing Vista select that partion for Vista. If u want to get your XP back You can always do it by using Repair installation of Windows XP. Boot using XP cd, select to install XP ( no repair at this point) xp installation now searches for previous XP intallations and finds your XP..now select repair.
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OK... excuse the title... but here's my situation. I'm running XP on a 40 Gig drive and have a free 20 Gig drive on which to run Vista. Since active brain cells are at a premium this weekend, I am looking for the simplest path to do a dual boot with both OS. I am more than a bit apprehensive in doing this and like the notion of having an XP safety net available.
Suggestions folks? A free case of LaBatts or Molson to the first person to come up with an approach that will get me through this.

Since you have the extra drive, just set it up as the master driveand your "XP drive as the slave. Then install Vista on the master. All your data and documents will be available from the slave drive. As an added plus, Vista will set up a boot loader that will let you boot to either OS.
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"HagarTheHorrible" wrote:

OK... excuse the title... but here's my situation. I'm running XP on a 40 Gig drive and have a free 20 Gig drive on which to run Vista. Since active brain cells are at a premium this weekend, I am looking for the simplest path to do a dual boot with both OS. I am more than a bit apprehensive in doing this and like the notion of having an XP safety net available.
Suggestions folks? A free case of LaBatts or Molson to the first person to come up with an approach that will get me through this.