Joe you sexy devil I need you

[Evil Lesley]

Did that get your attention? Good. ;)

I'm setting up a laptop for a friend, it came preinstalled with Vista Home Premium. Because of one of her programs she also will need XP installed. Can I install XP without messing up the Vista boot loader and will I have the option on boot to start one or the other.

Help!!!!

OH, there's no Vista CD with the lappy, of course, so if I remove Vista it's gone for good. Very confusing

[deano]

he will be here soon

my one thought on this is
make an image of the pre installed vista
you can only use the key once
then you have to play phone tag for 3 days
getting the key released for re install :cry:
carol had to make 9 phone calls for mine

i have duel booted xp and vista
but i had XP first on the HD
your doing it the other way

[Evil Lesley]

I was worried about that too. I've got the whole weekend to play with it so I can afford to take my time. I just emailed Acer to find out where the fuck the image of Vista that should be on the laptop is hiding. I'm thinking that after XP is installed I could do a repair of Vista - which might not require reactivation.
Damn this laptop is nice.

[Joe]

I dont feel like typing it all out, so i will just copy and paste this from Technet :p

Very Important: See Screenshots..

Preparation

The first thing one needs to do is to create a new partition on which to install Windows XP. This you can do by going to Computer>Right click>Manage>Disk Management.

Now right click on the blue primary hard drive at the bottom section of Disk Management and select "Shrink Volume". You can then choose how big the new partition that you want for Windows XP should be. It's suggested that you take into account that you may want to install programs and save data there, but also that you do not limit the amount of space available to Windows Vista unreasonably. Your total hard drive size will be your ultimate guide in selecting the amount of space you allocate to each operating system.

After the primary partition has been shrunk you will have Unallocated space visible in black. At this point it is recommended that you change the drive letter of your DVD (http://www.pro-networks.org/forum/about88231.html#) drive by inserting a DVD or CD into your DVD drive and close Autoplay when that dialog box appears, right click the blue area of your DVD drive in Disk Management and select "Change drive letter and paths..." and click Change. From the drop down menu on the right of the dialog box that appears, select E and click OK, and then click Yes when you asked to confirm your action. Now remove the CD or DVD from your drive.

Changing the drive letters as above leaves your drive/partition structure in a less confusing form than having your hard drive partitions irregularly lettered and does not interfere with the functioning of your DVD drive in any way. You will now have drive letter D: available to use for the partition you will create for Windows XP.


It is now time to create your Windows XP partition from the unallocated space by right clicking the unallocated space and selecting "New simple volume". Follow the "New simple volume Wizard" and accept the defaults until you get to the point where you can insert "Volume label" and type XP there to make identification of your XP installation drive easy. At this point select "Quick Format" to speed the process and continue with the wizard to completion of this action.

NB. At this point it is critical that you close Disk Management and restart your computer so that your changed disk/drive structure is taken fully into the Windows Vista configuration settings. After your system has restarted, you will again need to restart your system to finalize the setting up of your new partition.

Reboot twice to set your drive configuration


Install Windows XP

Once you have completed the preparation, you can now insert your Windows XP setup disc and restart your system again to boot from your XP CD and install Windows XP in the normal manner.


Create a Vista Dual Boot Menu

At this point you will have lost your ability to boot into Windows Vista for the time being and the next stage of this excercise is devoted restoring a dual boot to both Windows Vista and Windows XP.

Once you have your XP installation and drivers all installed, download and install VistaBootPRO. Make sure you follow the prompt to install .Net Framework 2.00 as VistaBootPRO will not run without it.

Open VistaBootPRO, ignore the prompt to backup your BCD. Go to the System Bootloader tab, select "Windows Vista Bootloader" in the first section and "All Drives" in the second section and then click Install Bootloader . Next, go to the Diagnostics item on the menu bar and select "Run Diagnostics". VistaBootPRO will default back to the Manage OS Entries page and you will see that you now have entries there for "Earlier versions of Windows" as well as "Microsoft Windows Vista".

Install the Vista bootloader

Vista Boot Pro

http://www.vistabootpro.org

Restart your system and select the operating system you would like to boot to.

The Install Process:

[Evil Lesley]

Kisses. Thanks Joe.

Luckily the drive came with a second 50 gig partition so I can skip the first part of the exercise.

[Joe]

Yes, if you have a second partition, you can skip down to the
Install Windows XP Section.... :)

[Evil Lesley]

this is the first time I've seen Vista and for all the hype it's not all that much different than XP. A bit prettier but so far the controls I've used have been the same thing in the same place, more or less. I turned off a few nags, some visual effects and the transparency feature, just to save on battery usage.

[Joe]

Took me about 3 months to get use to it, and if you do you will likely never go back to XP again....

You turned off Aero???

[deano]

this is the first time I've seen Vista and for all the hype it's not all that much different than XP. A bit prettier but so far the controls I've used have been the same thing in the same place, more or less. I turned off a few nags, some visual effects and the transparency feature, just to save on battery usage.

there's lots of new shit :gr:
check out the snipping tool , awesome :yeah:

[Evil Lesley]

It's not my copy so I won't dig too deep. The good thing is that she should be able to do all the normal stuff without any problems.

[deano]

what softwear wont work that she needs ?

[Evil Lesley]

Dragon Naturally Speaking. Her version is too old.

[Joe]

*cough* Torrent.. *cough*

[deano]

Dragon Naturally Speaking. Her version is too old.

downloading version 9 now
will that make her not want to duel boot
or should i cansel the download ?

[deano]

version 9 is for vista

[Meat]

That's a nasty cough Joe. :P

Oh, right, it's just Chat that is limited to Members. :drink:

[Evil Lesley]

Carry on downloading hon. that would be lovely

[Evil Lesley]

*cough* Torrent.. *cough*

I know, I know. I was just trying to keep it clean for her.

[deano]

Carry on downloading hon. that would be lovely

ok
it's 1.2 gigs
i have half of it now
tomorrow i'll send you the info

[Meat]

HEY, dipshit, do you ever check your PM's???

[deano]

HEY, dipshit, do you ever check your PM's???

me ?
i have none :idunno:

[Meat]

I asked you for a fucking name change, asshole.

[tinsmith]

That's a great name for you Mouseprick.......you're changing it to asshole.






Perfect.:moon: :laff: :moon:

[deano]

I asked you for a fucking name change, asshole.

pm me again then
i didn't get anything

[Meat]

That's a great name for you Mouseprick.......you're changing it to asshole.

Oh yea, the man of a thousand cuts.

From you I should take advice???

:mouse:

[Meat]

Da Meat is in da house. :)

And Deano rules all heaven and earth

(Fucking asshole.)

[tinsmith]

You spelled it wrong Meat. Should it say Dink before Meat?

[Evil Lesley]

Quit hijacking my thread you pricks.

[deano]

Quit hijacking my thread you pricks.

i'll re admin you for 30 seconds
for you can ban the thread stealers :drink:

[Evil Lesley]

Fuck that. I don't need the irritation.

[Meat]

Irritation creates pearls. ;)

[Evil Lesley]

and a decaf latte that wasn't decaf creates irritation at 2am. Bah

Nice name btw. No more excuses about forgetting which board you're posting on Mr Meat. ;)

[tinsmith]

i'll re admin you for 30 seconds
for you can ban the thread stealers :drink:

What a set of pliers you turned out ta be.:bleh:

[Evil Lesley]

I don't want to be an admin anyway. So there. :P

[Meat]

Yes you do, just not HERE. :mouse:

[Evil Lesley]

You just keep telling yourself that Meat

[MiNd_tRiP]

I love it when you talk dirty Lesley :D

[Evil Lesley]

I love it when you talk dirty Lesley :D

I know you do, that's why I do it.

[dzn]

Quit hijacking my thread you pricks.Thats Mr. to U...

[tinsmith]

Thats Mr. to U...

She right....you're still a prick Dzn:moon:

[dzn]

I've folded like a B movie blacksmithy...

[tinsmith]

B-porn


like there's an A porn.:laff:

[Evil Lesley]

You're all pricks but I love you anyway.