How to install Windows XP on a Windows Vista using Vista workstation to install XP in a separate mode dual-boot partition.
If you have a Windows XP workstation it is a piece of cake to install Windows Vista on the same workstation using the dual-boot using a separate on the same hard disk partition... However, the main centre recently received a large number of donations new jobs Lenovo ThinkCentre with factory installed and perfectly running Vista operating systems. Question: Is there a procedure that would allow using Vista to install Windows XP on these workstations dual-boot mode? Workstations must be used in a class of main center where we need to teach using either XP or Vista depending on student needs. A second hard drive would allow such a facility. But we would like to use a 2nd partition on the existing hard disk of Vista to install XP. However, Microsoft has always included features in its Windows operating systems that overcome by using the current operating system to install an older version of the OS. There must be a work around there somewhere. Thanks for your help.
If you have any available records of vista, you could make a partition in disk management (right click computer, manage, enable the UAC and then go into disk management.) Shrink the partition and format it with NTFS free space.) Then boot from the XP disc and install it. Once you have completed the installation of xp. Start the vista disc and go to the repair options. Go to a command prompt and type "bootrec.exe /fixboot" (without the quotes) and press ENTER. After restart, you should see a start with windows vista and xp listed menu. If xp is not in the list, let me know and I can tell you how to add it.
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