Showing results for. Search instead for. Did you mean:. Last reply by C3PO5 Unsolved. Have an Inspirion with Vista and will be doing a dual boot with XP on the laptop.
I have several articles on how to install XP on a Vista machine. However since there are already 3 primary partitions as well as the Diagnostic partition,I have to remove one of the 4 existing partitions.
I could delete the Media Direct partition as I see no use for it. All forum topics Previous Topic Next Topic. Replies 9. C3PO5 5 Tungsten. Thanks for the suggestion. I did read that link. Booting from the DVD only got me as far as the same black screen. Some Web searches revealed that Vista apparently hates it when you muck with your partition tables using older tools. This goes not just for Linux, but Partition Magic and the like as well.
Just about any tampering with the drive after Vista has been installed results in a system that cannot boot Vista.
This is yet one more reason why many of us ask why on Earth we installed the stupid thing in the first place; but I digress.
As I said, I had a working Ubuntu partition on my drive now. Fortunately there are tools under Linux that can fix this very problem. The package you want to look for is called ntfsprogs. The important thing is to make sure you have the latest version 1. I have a couple of questions: In step 4 where we need to use the editor, isn't vista assigned to C and xp assigned to drive E? Up to step 4 everything doesn't seem difficult.
But if we mess up here it seems big problems. On the other hand perhaps I missed a crucial point you made earlier and I should just enter exactly what you have shown in step 4 to conclude the dual boot facility. My last question has to do with possible need for drivers. I found out my notebook hd is a seagate SATA drive. Will xp pro need to be concerned about this drive type and require drivers?
Unfortunately for us newbies, the initial hd configuration may not be straight forward and simple as yours. This raised another question which while seeming to go off subject, anyone following your instructions may encounter especially newbies who would never in their life of ownership consider hd management and partitions a situation where the single drive has already been partitioned into 3 primary partitions. Question: Must the xp partition to be created be a primary partion?
If so, and 3 primary partitions already exist does this preclude adding xp? If yes does that mean no dual boot of xp? Thanks for your time and patience to help with these questions You can still dual boot, but what you must understand is that a partition which will load an OS must be a primary drive. There is the option when installing XP to leave the file system intact You could always resize them to move the files around.
I received my acer aspire as a gift from my daughter. Yesterday I started following your 4 steps to installing xp. Using the disk mgt wizard on vista I shrunk the partition and allocated a new partition of 8 gb for xp.
I ended up re-doing this step as I neglected to remove a flash drive and this caused the partition to be assigned a drive letter of G. I then deleted the new partition, expanded the C and restarted the procedure by rebooting again.
After I got back to recreating the partition again, I saw it wasn't a primary partition, but an extended one. I also saw via disk mgt three existing partitions, one un-named eisa configure , vista c drive and data d drive So using the wizard doesn't give me a primary partition so I need to use some other means to make sure the partition created is a primary one and not an extended partition By Kishore on , AM.
Hooray, it really works. I tried so many things, but couldn't make it run - untill I followed the advice. Thank you so much. By Tom Wylde on , PM. Different drives I purchased a new pc with a Vista pre-load, and then upgraded over the net to Ultimate. I created a partition on the for the XP install. Is it possible to dual boot by disconnecting the Vista drive, installing XP on the and reattaching the Vista drive? What drive s should I make active?
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