Dual Booting

[Guest]

OK people, Can anybody point me in the right direction.... I want an idiots
guide to dual booting... now I'm not sure I'm in the right place here but us
newbies got to start somewhere ... so please no sarcasm ... any help
gratefully received ... thanks to you all in advance .....

 

[Cal]

I reccomend to you strongly that dual booting is not
for principiants on dual booting, for principiants on windows, worst.
greetings, Carlos.

 

[Cal]

it wasnt so in the past, but this dual boot with Vista included can be a
real pain
if you are principiant. Carlos.

 

[Steve Easton]

Best done with two drives.
Can be done with one drive with two partitions.

Here's how I did it on my new machine with two unformatted brand new drives
hooked up as Sata0 and Sata1

Disconnected Sata1, placed the XP disk in the drive, started the
machine, went into the BIOS set up and set the DVD drive as the boot drive.
Closed the bios setup, machine detected the disk and displayed the XP install screen and
we were off to the races.
When the install was done and XP rebooted for the last time, went straight to Grisoft and
downloaded and installed AVG.

Shut down, hooked up the second drive to Sata1.
Rebooted, used XP to format and mount the drive.
Place the Vista disk in the DVD drive and the install screen displayed.
Installed Vista on the second drive.
When it rebooted for the last time, straight to Grisoft for AVG one more time.

Download and installed Vista Boot pro http://www.vistabootpro.org/
and set XP as the default boot OS.

I have then since set the XP pagefile.sys file to the Vista drive
and the Vista pagefile.sys file to the XP drive.

 

[Steve Easton]

One thing to keep in mind though that there is a bug in that every time you boot to XP
it will wipe out all of the Vista restore points.

 

[Cal]

another thing is that if you decide to delete Vista installation, wich is
nothing rare, youll have many problems, one of them is that after delete
Vista, youll shall have no boot XP, you shall have to repair winXP
installation wich is nothing trivial, then you 'll have your pc inacsesible.
Carlos.

 

[mikeyhsd]

instead of dual booting, might give VPC2007 a thought. its FREE.
run the second os as a guest under the virtual environment.
most of the gotchas with dual booting do not show.



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OK people, Can anybody point me in the right direction.... I want an idiots
guide to dual booting... now I'm not sure I'm in the right place here but us
newbies got to start somewhere ... so please no sarcasm ... any help
gratefully received ... thanks to you all in advance .....

 

[Steve Easton]

Not if you made copies of all the "normal" XP boot files first.

;-)

 

[Cal]

and it can be extremely tedious, restore 40, 60, 200, GB hard drives, bit to
bit,

 

[Steve Easton]

Not necessary.
Much simpler to run an unattended install / repair from a command prompt.
Driveletter:\i386\winnt32 /unattend

;-)

 

[Doris Day - MFB]

This reply is not coming from Outhouse Express, hence not top posted ...

Best done with two drives.
Can be done with one drive with two partitions.

Here's how I did it on my new machine with two unformatted brand new
drives hooked up as Sata0 and Sata1

Disconnected Sata1, placed the XP disk in the drive, started the
machine, went into the BIOS set up and set the DVD drive as the boot
drive. Closed the bios setup, machine detected the disk and displayed the
XP install screen and we were off to the races.
When the install was done and XP rebooted for the last time, went straight
to Grisoft and downloaded and installed AVG.

Shut down, hooked up the second drive to Sata1.
Rebooted, used XP to format and mount the drive.
Place the Vista disk in the DVD drive and the install screen displayed.
Installed Vista on the second drive.
When it rebooted for the last time, straight to Grisoft for AVG one more
time.

Download and installed Vista Boot pro http://www.vistabootpro.org/
and set XP as the default boot OS.

I have then since set the XP pagefile.sys file to the Vista drive
and the Vista pagefile.sys file to the XP drive.

The idiot didn't even mention what he wanted to dualboot and you're here
telling him how to do it. I guess that makes you an idiot also.

Love and Kisses,
Doris

--
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Vista - easy to hack - a warning: http://tinyurl.com/2nv4yl
BallmerBumBois: Frank, Julian, Richard Urban, Jupiter Jones, Harry Krause,
Feliks Dzerzhinsky
Sorry if I missed anyone, place your name here _________________.

 

[Doris Day - MFB]

This reply is not coming from Outhouse Express, hence not top posted ... Cal
wrote:

I reccomend to you strongly that dual booting is not
for principiants on dual booting, for principiants on windows, worst.
greetings, Carlos.

What!?!

Love and Kisses,
Doris

--
My Microsoft Hero (he loves this company!) ... http://tinyurl.com/yp9cn2
Vista - easy to hack - a warning: http://tinyurl.com/2nv4yl
BallmerBumBois: Frank, Julian, Richard Urban, Jupiter Jones, Harry Krause,
Feliks Dzerzhinsky
Sorry if I missed anyone, place your name here _________________.

 

[Cal]

so, you recommend unatended install to a principiant, and further you forget
the many program installations and configurations he have to do, apart from
aditional modifications like to consider restauration points, Vista and XP
affect restauration points, etc, etc, etc
Carlos.

 

[Cal]

please, dont start with offensive phrases, mainly if you didnt received one.

i think it is obvious Zub wanted to dualboot Vista with
XP or 2000 or Me
any case situation is similar. Carlos.

 

[Richard]

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please, dont start with offensive phrases, mainly if you didnt received one.

i think it is obvious Zub wanted to dualboot Vista with
XP or 2000 or Me
any case situation is similar. Carlos.

Cal,

If you feed the pigeons who land on your lawn they will keep on
returning to shit on your windows.
If you leave the pigeons alone & don't feed them, they'll fly away &
bother someone else.




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[Guest]

Thanks for all the replies..... however Doris I find your remarks highly
offensive .. and uncalled for ....

 

[Rock]

another thing is that if you decide to delete Vista installation, wich is
nothing rare, youll have many problems, one of them is that after delete
Vista, youll shall have no boot XP, you shall have to repair winXP
installation wich is nothing trivial, then you 'll have your pc
inacsesible.

It's isn't particularly hard to remove Vista and restore XP's boot loader.

 

[Rock]

OK people, Can anybody point me in the right direction.... I want an
idiots
guide to dual booting... now I'm not sure I'm in the right place here but
us
newbies got to start somewhere ... so please no sarcasm ... any help
gratefully received ... thanks to you all in advance .....

It would help if you stated what you want to dual boot with? What are the
two OS's, what is the computer and configuration, what kind of and how many
drives, etc. Then you'll get more focused answers.

There is plenty of info on this topic. You could do a Google web and groups
search on something like
dual boot OS1 OS2 to get more info.

 

[Steve Easton]

I guess you never done an unattended repair.
It doesn't whack your programs or files.
Might however require reinstalling updates.

 

[Steve Easton]

This reply is not coming from Outhouse Express, hence not top posted ...
The idiot didn't even mention what he wanted to dualboot and you're here
telling him how to do it. I guess that makes you an idiot also.

I guess your so busy worrying about who posts what where that you didn't read the original
post.
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OK people, Can anybody point me in the right direction.... I want an idiots
guide to dual booting... now I'm not sure I'm in the right place here but us
newbies got to start somewhere ... so please no sarcasm ... any help
gratefully received ... thanks to you all in advance .....
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Have a nice Day...... Doris.