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Windows Vista Gamers Journal 4
Monday, August 14th, 2006
Yesterday we tried, and failed, to get a dual-boot configuration running on our Vista test PC. Our
situation was somewhat unique, in that the computer was running only Vista when we tried to add an XP partition and boot sequence. We were well aware that the standard process of multi-booting Windows is to install older OSs first, but since we already had Vista running nicely we figured we’d try to get XP in later. Sadly, this didn’t work at all.
This morning we booted the GParted CD and then wiped and repartitioned the hard drive. Of the 140GB we have to work with, we allocated 120GB as the C partition for Vista and 20GB as the D drive for XP. Both partitions were set as primary. Next, we installed Windows XP on the D drive, which went swimmingly. Once XP was up and running we booted the Vista install from XP and let it do its thing. The Vista install went down without error, and upon a final restart, we discovered we had success.
Without any tweaking or editing, Vista’s boot loader now recognizes both Vista, which it calls Microsoft Windows, and XP, which it calls Earlier version of Windows. We can now switch between the OSs at launch, which is an easy way to get the best of both of both operating systems. Installing both OSs fresh required setting up drivers and installing programs all over again, but both XP and Vista like our hardware and didn’t give us much trouble. We discovered, however, that VoodooPC apparently has access to some files and drivers that are not publicly available, as the ASUS mobo drivers we downloaded don’t work as well as what we had before, and some games that previously had Game Definition Files and nice icons in Game Explorer don’t have them after the re-install. IGN: Windows Vista Journal 4
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