Adnan Rafik said:
Hi all,
can you guide me how to install Vista on an existing Win XP Pro machine.
I've only HDD but 2 patitions and I don't want to loose my XP Pro.
thanks
you DO NOT NEED to install GRUB, unless you are planning on using a Linux
distro.
since you already have two partitions all you need to do is first find which
partition is ACTIVE, that will be the partition that has the BOOT info for
XP, now write down the number of the partition that is not active. make sure
you dont have anything in there that you dont want to loose.
now begin to install vista using the CUSTOM option and choose the partition
that you wrote down. that is all you need to do, vista will recognize that XP
is installed and leave it alone, and Vista will automatically make an entry
in the BOOT.ini so you will be faced with an option everytime you start your
computer.