Comments on: Dual Boot Between Windows XP and Vista

By: Amanda Doherty

Amanda Doherty — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:21:47 +0000

I am trying to set up the dual boot on my brothers new dell laptop and I got the partitions on and start to setup xp and it stops at the license page and will not allow me to accept. His dj programs for his business work on xp and wont on vista so this is very frustrating. The longer I mess with this the longer his business is held up. Does anyone know y it stops here and is not frozen? It will allow me to not agree or page down so it is not frozen up

By: John Hesch

John Hesch — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:31:15 +0000

I just purchase a new computer with window vista, and would like to format and get rid of vista and put xp on it. what drives will I need to keep the computer up to date with hard ware on my Hp M9150 F It has a wireless mouse and keyboard, nvidia Geforce 8500gt wireless card LAN 8002.11b/g etc etc.

By: n3kr0t3k

n3kr0t3k — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:14:59 +0000

I would like to Dual boot XP & Windows Server 2008. Should I put each OS on Seperate HD, or partition a HD, and which order would be best. Thank you for helping if anyone has any suggestions.

By: ajustwar

ajustwar — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 08:29:49 +0000

I have a dual boot xp and vista. i put xp on first then vista and i had no problems. works great for me i also use vmware.

By: Laaabaseball

Laaabaseball — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:53:29 +0000

I dual boot Vista and Xp on my laptop, but I wonder why I need to use a program to do it? It works perfectly fine for me, and I didn’t need to install another program to add to my list of them. I do however recommend Vlite for vista, since it gets Vista off of the slow ground its on and boots up the speed on it.

By: WizzKid

WizzKid — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:06:34 +0000

Great advice Chris + the comments, will try it out later today :)

By: beyourownit

beyourownit — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:17:34 +0000

With all this discussion on Vista I feel like I should install it sometime. I have been running XP forever and it fits all my needs, now that I actually pay for software, upgrading only occurs by necessity and not just because. I should upgrade and do a video on my site about how it goes.

By: MikeD

MikeD — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:15:51 +0000

When I get tired of Vista on my main Windows laptop I will probably go this route. Vista is such a piece of garbage.

By: David AKA Arcane

David AKA Arcane — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 02:27:31 +0000

Vista boot pro is great, but it’s so much easier to install xp first, then install vista. Theres so many steps to revert back even with the software.

By: Drew

Drew — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 01:55:01 +0000

If you install XP then can’t get back into Vista, you gotta boot into Vista’s recovery console and fixmbr I think. I dual booted with XP then Vista & Vice Versa before. Check out http://apcmag.com/5485/dualbooting_vista_and_xp

By: randy_nacol2022

randy_nacol2022 — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 01:16:23 +0000

This is a subject I’m very interested in since I , myself, have thought about doing the same. Putting xp over Vista. Is Vista Boot Pro any good? Partion Magic is a tried and true program. If and when I do duo-boot I will research both programs and compare.

By: Martin Eyles

Martin Eyles — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:43:12 +0000

My particular flavour of dual booting is Vista (which won’t be used much – my dev tools don’t work, and people on here have agreed that there’s not much point struggling if it doesn’t benefit me) and Server 2003 (will be used as supports MSSQL and my various dev tools), on a laptop (for which there aren’t any win2k3 drivers, but luckily xp drivers work ok).

By: scottfrye

scottfrye — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:07:28 +0000

I would try EasyBCD instead.

By: Error32

Error32 — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:56:00 +0000

why,even do that? when,you can run vista on Virtural box?!!
i just think that’s a wast of time, to do. just,use vmware to dual boot os. and,it will save you time.

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By: Michael Rivera (mrivera1)

Michael Rivera (mrivera1) — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:53:42 +0000

A Vista/XP dual boot situation is quite common nowadays, especially with all of the unknown responses Vista can have to the simplest of things. XP is still the safest bet to take when you need to do anything that you are in doubt about doing on Vista.