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Gary Brown
Hi,
I am about to install Vista and XP as dual boot on a laptop with a SATA
disk. The laptop does not have a floppy disk drive. As an alternative to a
normal install is it possible to copy or clone an existing XP installation
into a disk partition and "massage" the installation to boot, e.g., by
fixing the MBR with EasyBCD? Assume the Vista boot is there - I believe the
OEM Vista disks I have require Vista be installed first.
The laptop is a Compaq F572US running Vista Premium. The BIOS does not have
an EIDE disk setting. I spent a long week trying to install XP on my
desktop without a floppy. Slipstreaming in a SATA driver didn't work. I
finally succeeded only by getting the floppy drive working. I am trying to
avoid another exercise like that.
Thanks,
Gary
I am about to install Vista and XP as dual boot on a laptop with a SATA
disk. The laptop does not have a floppy disk drive. As an alternative to a
normal install is it possible to copy or clone an existing XP installation
into a disk partition and "massage" the installation to boot, e.g., by
fixing the MBR with EasyBCD? Assume the Vista boot is there - I believe the
OEM Vista disks I have require Vista be installed first.
The laptop is a Compaq F572US running Vista Premium. The BIOS does not have
an EIDE disk setting. I spent a long week trying to install XP on my
desktop without a floppy. Slipstreaming in a SATA driver didn't work. I
finally succeeded only by getting the floppy drive working. I am trying to
avoid another exercise like that.
Thanks,
Gary