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| Thread ID: 99720 | 2009-05-12 06:15:00 | Dual Booting XP after VISTA is installed | Openingfuel (14473) | Press F1 |
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| 773299 | 2009-05-12 06:15:00 | Well heres what has happened I have installed vista and after finding out that the printers drivers dont work on vista, I made another partition on the same had drive and installed XP on it. But now: It doesnt let me choose what operating system to boot up, it goes straight into XP. Vista is still installed but I cant use it for some reason. I have done this before but with XP installed first and then Vista second and worked like a charm :clap Please help, my sister is getting really pissed off at me for what I did, hope i can get out of this. ALIVE!:waughh: |
Openingfuel (14473) | ||
| 773300 | 2009-05-12 06:30:00 | You should always install the older OS first then the new one, can you go into MSconfig and edit the boot menu? start-run type msconfig | gary67 (56) | ||
| 773301 | 2009-05-12 06:43:00 | Install EasyBCD, reinstall the Vista bootloader and add an entry for XP in there. :) BTW Gary that method relies on boot.ini, which Vista doesn't use. |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 773302 | 2009-05-12 07:16:00 | Thanks mate is working! | Openingfuel (14473) | ||
| 773303 | 2009-05-12 08:13:00 | Glad it worked. :) | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 773304 | 2009-05-12 08:15:00 | I don't have Vista so didn't know that so thanks for informing me does Win 7 have it I haven't had time to look yet | gary67 (56) | ||
| 773305 | 2009-05-12 09:25:00 | Windows 7 is based on Vista, so naturally it would have the same bootloader. :) | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 773306 | 2009-05-12 09:32:00 | Yep, you can also use the BCDEDIT tool if you don't have EasyBCD. Although EasyBCd is the easiest to set up. Blam |
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