setting up a dual XP/Vista with a copy preinstalled Vista and no vista CD

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• How do I set up a dual boot Vista and XP with 2 hard drives?

  Dual boot Vista and XP with 2 hard drives

  I tried to get my computer has a separate hard drive put in place that lets me run Windows XP or Windows Vista. I tried the path of the CMD, but I could do things wrong with that because the news NTLDR appeared much too different info from Vista. Currently, I have deleted this change to the startup configuration. I want to know what I have to do to get these two to be able to boot. I noticed problems similar to mine, but the answer always seems to be a software that would cost me money.

  Thank you

  Tevans95

  Hello Tevans95,

  You cannot install two different operating systems on two different disks. For a dual-boot environment, you must install both XP and Vista on the same drive with different partitions.

  In addition, you must install Windows XP first and then Windows Vista.

  You can check the items below which will give you information on Dual boot.

  Install multiple operating systems (multiboot)

  Set up a dual-boot system

  Change the default operating system for startup (multiboot)

  There is no software that can help you to install XP and Vista on different drives.

  Thank you
  Irfan H, Engineer Support Microsoft Answers. Visit ourMicrosoft answers feedback Forum and let us know what you think.

• is it possible to set up a dual boot, so I don't have to stop, and then pass the SATA cables that I boot to change?

  Original title: Dual boot

  My XPpro on a former player, was upward. then, I got another new drive, installed Win7Ultimate.  Well, I got the OLD disk works with XP on it.  But, some of these apps DO WORK not on Win7.  so, at least for now, I have two drives installed on the same computer.  is it possible to set up a dual boot, so I don't have to stop, and then pass the SATA cables that I boot to change?   Operating systems already are on 2 different disks.

  Hello

  How to set up a Dual Boot Installation with Windows 7 and XP
  http://www.SevenForums.com/tutorials/8057-dual-boot-installation-Windows-7-XP.html

  Definitive dual-booting guide: Windows 7, Linux, Vista and XP step-by-step
  http://apcmag.com/the_definitive_dualbooting_guide_linux_vista_and_xp_stepbystep.htm

  Dual Boot computer preinstalled Windows 7 with XP
  http://www.howtogeek.com/HOWTO/8790/dual-boot-your-pre-installed-Windows-7-computer-with-XP/

  I hope this helps.
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• Satellite A100-451 Vista - can I add XP and set up the dual boot?

  My new A100-451 came with 2 related partitions on the HARD disk, marked C:\Vista
  (Vista Home Premium) and E:\Data. About 80 GB on each.
  I can't get my ProII Toucam webcam works with Vista and refuse to update the software.
  Some of my other software no longer work.

  Because the HARD disk is already partitioned, I would install XP on the second partition and set up a dual boot system.
  Is it possible, and how would I go about this?

  Thank you all,
  John.

  Hello

  Of course, you can install a XP on more partition.
  But I do not recommend to install the XP on the partition existing E:\ but to create a new partition on the HARD drive.
  It s very simple to create the partition under Vista OS. Go to disk management and shrink a partition E:
  Then the 3rd other partition can be created on the empty space.

  Then you could just run the install of XP and could install XP on a partition that is created again.

  See you soon

• I had vista on dual boot 7 on D, accidentally formatted c and windows c, now get a white screen with the help of curser.plz?

  I have laptop dual boot
  Vista on the c drive, and Windows 7 on drive d.
  accidentally formatted the c drive, now at startup, I get black screen with blinking cursor
  I have the vista recovery disc, but no drive internal, there is also no option in the bios for disk external usb
  Please help me

  Hello

  "but no drive internal."

  to find out how to reinstall vista you will need to fix the dvd player if there is a

  you have a recovery for a reason disc

  Contact the manufacturer of the laptop to answer to this

• Remove Xp in Dual Boot Vista/XP with disk HARD 2

  Hello. I have Xp Pro saved on a HARD disc C, and professional Vista registered in D.  I want to run vista exclusively and remove it from my PC, additional HARD drive which has XP on it. When I try to format it, I can't obviously because the XP HDD is my system drive. I tried to unplug C with XP Pro on it and just get plugged with Vista Business d, but then I get the ntldr and boot.ini lack type errors.  I copied ntldr and ntdetect files on my Vista drive. I also received the error, no os boot from C:\Windows.

  I found how to remove xp on one partition, but not when you have separate HDD.

  Any help?

  Thank you.

  Hello Fullerfyed,

  Thank you for visiting the website of Microsoft Windows Vista Community.

  Try the rest of the stage in this article:

  Simply load in Vista and format the partition ON THAT XP is installed. As the Vista bootloader has control of the boot, there is no need to change the XP boot.ini file.

  Restart your computer with either 1 Vista CD or your DVD of Vista in the player, if you don't you will be prompted to select an operating system. Once in Setup, choose repair console in the first screen (not install).

  Now, the last option is a DOS prompt, choose that.

  A DOS prompt appears, and then type the following:

  Bootrec.exe /fixmbr

  * This will essentially remove XP from the Vista bootloader

  Bootrec.exe /fixboot

  * This will verify that XP is no longer present in the boot.ini in Vista

  Reboot and XP is history.

  This should solve your problem.

  Let us know if these steps solve your problem.  I hope the information is useful.

  Kind regards

  Anthony
  Microsoft Answers Support Engineer
  Visit our Microsoft answers feedback Forum and let us know what you think.

• Satellite Pro A200: How to create Dual boot; Vista & XP using the recovery CD

  I just bought a laptop Satellite Pro A200, which was supplied with the product for Vista and XP Recovery discs.
  The license specifically Vista also XP licenses.
  Can I set up a dual boot so that I can boot to Vista or XP? If so, how?

  I would also like a third boot, Red Hat Linux 9.
  Any comments?

  Hmmm. Usually it s possible to use two or more operating systems on the computer, but as far as I know the Toshiba Vista recovery CD formats whole disk when installing Vista and this will lead to the loss of the OS installed.
  I m not 100% sure on the recovery of the newest XP CD called RECON doesn t CD include an expert mode which allows to choose between the different partitions.

  So I guess that each use the recovery CD will format the HARD drive and erase the installed data. But of course, you can try to install the two BONES and to check if the restore XP CD allows to choose the second part of the installation of the OS.

  If it does not, it seems that you will need to an original XP from Microsoft CD or the original CD of Vista to use the two BONES.

  Best regards

• setting up a dual boot and storage of BIOS options

  I have a HP with Windows 7 Professional 64 bit xw4600 workstation. He resides in the SATA location 0.
  I have a separate hard drive Linux Mint 17.1 installed. He resides in slot SATA 3.
  I want to set up a dual-boot option to start Windows or Linux.
  In the BIOS under storage... Storage options must be set to RAID or AHCI? (I don't want a backup RAID configuration. I have cloned my hard drive to another hard drive in the SATA 2 connector, the DVD burner is in the SATA 1 connector).

  It seems that the computer will boot only from the hard drive to the SATA location 0.
  If I disconnect the hard drive to the SATAS location 0 which has Windows 7, I get an error in the message of wiring.
  If I use the boot F9 option, my choice is the hard drive, but I can't specify which.
  I can't find anywhere to change the HDD boot order in the BIOS.
  Any help will be apprecaited because I want to avoid opening the case and cables around switching.

  The HP xw workstations want to start only on the capture of port 0 on the motherboard SATA (often a blue color, while the others are brown dark/black).  Here is a post on how we worked around the need to have more of a boot drive, down to the low point, the photo shows the receiver in place with a carrier on the inside, and 3 many carriers are here to see you, too.

  This way you can have a single SATA cable go from that device to the SATA port 0 and boot from any operating system you like.  We now use only SSD for our startup discs, and the device fits perfectly into the floppy to the front of the box Bay area.  Do not stop going from one to the other SSDS.  I timed the move... 66 seconds to choose stop to W8.1 to get the Welcome screen W7 and vice versa on workstation xw4600 both xw6400/6600 (with BIOS optimized for faster startup).

  Apparently, there's some expensive SATA switches that allow to move from one entry to another entry and have only 1 output to the SATA port 0, but this approach has been working great for about 2 years now for us.  New versions of this device accept SATA cable lock, but my cables without locking of Foxconn HP were now firmly as well.

  There are similar devices for disks 3.5 "that HP had sold in the past.  Another advantage is that you can have two boot disks, both running on W7Pro, for example, and use the same certificate of authenticity.  One for the House stuff; one for the stuff of the company, for you home office people who want to keep things separate.

• Set up the Dual Boot Xp32 and Xp64

  I want to set up a dual-boot for my business environment, mainly because some of my hardware will not work with the 64-bit operating system. I currently have 64-bit installed, but cannot get the 32 bit version to install, once started, it won't read the disc (I put the CD-ROM as first boot device) should I wipe it and install first 32?  Thank you

  Maybe it's a coincidence, but I have the same question 2 days ago on an old house built X Gamer computer.

  It turns out that the SATA DVD drive necessary data cable be moved to a JMicron (completely illogical) SATA port controlled instead of the Intel ICH10R SATA ports.

  What you can also try is pressed the space bar twice a second after you put first on the PC with 64-Bit CD already in the CD/DVD drive.

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• Dual Boot Vista and XP in separate hard drives?

  I currently installed on a hard drive in Vista and I have an extra which is 160 GB I want to install XP on so that I can dualboot both, is it possible?

  Remember that there is no partition in question here.

  The key which makes the task easier is to preformat the drive, assign a disk label (example: WinXP) and then launch the installation.

  How to dual boot Vista and XP (with Vista installed first) - the guide step by step with screenshots
  http://apcmag.com/how_to_dual_boot_vista_and_xp_with_vista_installed_first__the_stepbystep_guide.htm

  Install Windows XP on your pre-installed Windows Vista computer
  http://www.howtogeek.com/HOWTO/Windows-Vista/install-Windows-XP-on-your-pre-installed-Windows-Vista-computer/

  As always, with the project like this create an image backup of your entire hard drive (to an external USB drive) first.

  Acronis True Image 2011 - has a 30 day trial version available.
  (Install Acronis and then create a restoration/Rescue CD Media before starting the creation of an image backup)
  http://www.Acronis.com/homecomputing/products/TrueImage/
  The version comparison: http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/comparison.html
  True Image User Guides and documentation:
  http://www.Acronis.com/homecomputing/download/docs/

  J W Stuart: http://www.pagestart.com

• Can I run dual boot Vista 32 and Windows 7 64? Can I use a upgrade disk to install the full version?

  original title: I have a simple question...

  I have Vista 32 bit.  I have two hard drives.  Vista 32 is on disk 0.  (C) I want to upgrade to Windows 7 64 bit.  I want to change the installation path on Windows 7 64 bit edition updated the software on my second drive, so I can run a system dual boot.  Windows 7 Setup will allow me to do?  I can use the version upgrade of the software for that, or do I have the full version?

  Hello

  You can't do what you want to do

  32-bit to 64-bit is NOT a upgrade path if you have always wanted to upgrade 32 bit vista

  It must be done with a clean install with a final certificate

  and you need a full license of windows 7 to install windows 7 on the 2nd hard drive

  You can dual boot vista 32-bit and 64-bit windows 7, if the manufacturer of your computer provides windows 7 drivers

• How can I set up separate e-mail folders in Windows Mail to two companies each with its own email address and the password?

  We use Verizon as our ISP.  I was getting our email to two different companies by connecting to Verizon in with another user name and password for each company.  However, we have received messages in our email that we were almost our quota and customer emails we would not come through and have been having rebounded.  I spoke with Verizon and learned to use a 3rd party to channel messages and thus free up space from the server.  They helped me to set up the email to go in Windows Mail, but now all the email for both companies will in the same e-mail account.  How can we separate the email for both companies so that each company can log on to Windows Mail with their own separate IDs and passwords?

  See this:
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/create-a-user-account
   

• How dual boot Vista and Windows 7

  I'm using vista Home premium and want to install windows 7 a.m. premium as a dual boot. If I decide later by far with windows vista and keep only 7 How can proceed?

  Assuming that my OS is windows 7 can I use the same disk of vista on the virtual machine with the same product key.

  Vista and 7 cannot exist on the same partition as a dual boot? How to do it.

  Is ther to disadvantages in dual boot?

  There are no real problems with dual boot if it's Setup corrrectly.

  You need operating systems on separate partitions (readers not necessarily distinct, but definitely separate from the partitions).

  If you uninstall Vista later and it's a copy to the details of the program, then you can install it in a virtual drive using the same product key (but you'll probably need to activate manually).

  Here's how Dual boot Vista with Widows7: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/5166-dual-boot-installation-windows-7-vista.html.

  Although written for other systems, the process to remove a dual boot will work with Windows7 and Vista (although you may need to use the commands and Windows7 disk): http://vistasupport.mvps.org/remove_windows_vista_from_dual_boot_system.htm depending on the situation and that was installed first.

  I hope this helps.

  Good luck!

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• I have been using the functionality of Firefox in which I could have multiple sets of tabs open, but only see the game I was working with. I have updated and now the functionality is Gone

  I have been using the functionality of Firefox in which I could have multiple sets of tabs open, but only see the game I was working with. I have updated and now the feature disappeared. I had a small icon on the top right of my toolbar. I used it all the time to keep windows separated for financial, plans to travel items, news, etc.. Has it been removed from Firefox?

  Hello

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• Failure of dual booting Ubuntu with Windows 8 on the Satellite P845t

  I tried in vain to dual boot Ubuntu 13.10 to a new Satellite from Toshiba with Windows 8.1. The laptop has UEFI. I used the two live DVD and live USB, and I tried with SecureBoot both active and disabled.

  Whenever I have the same failure. J
  UST before the next GRUB, the error message screen appears flashes briefly on the screen "error: variable 'root' is not defined". The GRUB screen appears. I tried Trying-out Installation and Installation and whenever once I have selected one of these options, then, the screen turns off and remains empty. When you use a DVD, the DVD still Purring for several seconds, before going to death.

  Out of curiosity I tried to install OpenSUSE 12.3 in the same way (with SecureBoot both enabled and disabled in turn, etc.) and stalls from installation to a similar point every time, which leads me to think that it is something to do with how UEFI is installed on the laptop.

  The laptop is a Toshiba Satellite P845T about 3 months with the HARD drive replaced with a SSD.
  It came with pre-installed Windows 8, and I've upgraded to 8.1 Windows last week, shortly before trying to install Ubuntu.

  Curiously, the Windows desktop 8.1 has a watermark in the bottom right that says: "SecureBoot is not configured correctly", but that may not be not relevant for this query, such as Google search, that suggests that many people have this watermark even if SecureBoot is properly configured. And activating/deactivating the SecureBoot makes no difference for the message.

  Any help would be welcome, as I'd like to get this double-started with Ubuntu.

  Thank you!

  Hello

  Can you tell me if you tried to start a direct media from a USB?
  If YES - which was / is the result?

  BTW - I guess that's your feed:

  http://UbuntuForums.org/showthread.php?t=2184839

  BR

  Tom

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