dual boot with xp pro

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following the advice i have read here i have XP pro on one Hard drive and
Vista on a seperate hard drive. When i boot i asks me Older operating system,
or microsoft windows. so for now it works to what it is needed for.i had to
followthe directions and install vista from XP and all installed properly.
only problem i have is installing my USB HP Printer to test it with Vista. No
new Drivers for it
 
I have the HP networked printer problem as well. I imagine it'll stay this
way until we get new drivers from HP. If anyone else out there has
discovered a work-around I'd love to hear it.

Thanks, Doug
 
Alas, HP, has no intention of releasing beta driver for their printers for
Vista. They'd rather us be beta driver testers when Vista is released next
year.
 
I have a dual boot XP/Vista system with an HP PSC 2210 USB printer and this
works fine using the supplied driver with Vista (i.e. using the compatible
generic driver which in this case was the PSC 2350 family).
There are plenty of Deskjet and Laser drivers which will work generically
even though the exact model might not be shown.

Keith B
 
Hey! how's about this?

If someone's going to upgrade from XP Pro to another flavour of Vista
why doesn't Vista say "I can't run this program very well. Would you
like to run it in XP Pro instead? I recommend you choose Yes"
 
I split my hard disc (Dell Inspiron Dual Core laptop) into 2 partitions.
Installed vista fine on the first partition.

Then booted from the xp disk and installed XP.

Reboot, and only XP comes up - no option for vista.

Ho Hum, 2 hours wasted. Lets try putting vista back on the first partition.
Installed fine. Reboot.....

No XP!!!

I can see the 2 partitions with all their seperate files but I cannot get
the dual boot option up.

Any thoughts?
 
Standard procedure - setting up a dual boot environment- always install
older OS first - XP then Vista. just "reinstalling Vista" will not do it.
 
Assuming that your first partition is your active partition, you should
check to see if you have the ntldr, ntdetect.com and boot.ini files left
from the XP install on the root of the drive as well as the Vista Boot file.
If so, you need to download VistaBootPro or EasyBCD and add an entry for an
earlier version of Windows. Make sure the boot.ini points to partition 2.
If you don't have those 3 files, you will have to copy ntldr and
ntdetect.com from the XP CD and create the boot.ini like below

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="WINDOWS XP" /NoExecute=OptOut
 
Number one rule in setting up dual boot option : always install older OS
first e,g, XP then Visat.
 
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