Dual boot XP/Vista Problems

G

Guest

Hi, I'm trying to dual boot XP/Vista on my system. I've gotten XP
installed on 1st, 160GB's RAID 0. I was trying to install Vista on an 80 Gig
drive, but it's an IDE drive. I didn't think this would make a difference,
but apparently it does because when I get to the part of the install that
asks what partition to install Vista to, I click the IDE drive and I get an
error message "Windows is unable to find a System Volume that meets its
criteria for installation"

I've got a Dell that I was able to dual boot with, but both drives are
IDE. Should XP be on the IDE and Vista put on the SATA drives? Or should it
work the way I've gotten my system set up?
 
J

James Matthews

On my computer the sound stopped working in windows XP when i dual booted so
i switched to windows vista!
 
J

John Barnes

The cleanest way to proceed would be to install Vista with only the drive
you want to install it on, attached. Then download VistaBootPro or EasyBCD
and clean up the dual booting process. At that point you can decide which
you want to be the system drive and then install the appropriate booting
process.
 
G

Guest

Well, seems the last two posters had pretty good ideas, but I found out that
the hard drive I tried to install Vista to was "Bad". But that's ok, I'm
going to get another one (SATA) and see how that goes. Thanks folks.
 

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