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 Apr 22 2007, 03:25 AM
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 aut viam inveniam aut faciam  Group: Members Posts: 3,510 Joined: 14-November 06 From: Ossendrecht/The Netherlands Member No.: 95,557  |
This appears to be a well designed guide but will it give him whilst booting up his computer the choise to either launch XP or Vista? --------------------  Free antivirus : AVG Free Free Anti-spyware AVG Anti Spyware Free Firewall :Zone Alarm Ccleaner Ad aware & Manual SpybotS&D&Manual Free Handy programs |
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Apr 22 2007, 03:31 AM
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Forum Addict Group: BC Advisor Posts: 2,609 Joined: 6-November 05 From: Avondale, Arizona USA Member No.: 39,726 |
Yes. I just read the article from your link.
seems to be clear, concise and exactly to the point. -------------------- The name says it all -- 59 and holding permanently
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Apr 22 2007, 03:32 AM
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Sure, Vista will give you a menu to choose between Vista or XP, if it sees XP on another hard drive when you install Vista and.
Sure, Vista will add a boot menu to choose between Vista or XP, if it sees XP on another hard drive when you install Vista and. -------------------- "Anyone who cannot form a community with others, or who does not need to because he is self-sufficient [...] is either a beast or a god." Aristotle
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Apr 22 2007, 03:40 AM
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aut viam inveniam aut faciam Group: Members Posts: 3,510 Joined: 14-November 06 From: Ossendrecht/The Netherlands Member No.: 95,557 |
OK Thanks guys. After 3 years I barely manage XP and the las I wanted to is to screw up my son's pc..He is more than 2 mtrs long...
 
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Apr 22 2007, 09:22 AM
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I'm running a dual boot system with XP MCE and Vista Premium, fozzie.
I used different software to do the partitioning and edit the boot manager, but otherwise those instructions look very good, and basically exactly what I did. Let us know how it goes, OK? --------------------  I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant! |
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Apr 22 2007, 12:18 PM
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 Forum Regular Group: Members Posts: 153 Joined: 6-April 07 From: Carmi, Illinois Member No.: 122,618 |
I found out the hard way that when dual booting that when you go to XP any restore points in Vista are deleted. It concerned me at first. The reason I wanted to dual boot was incase there was a program or piece of hardware that wouldn't work with Vista.
I very seldom even bother going into XP any more and am just about ready to do away with the XP installation and run just Vista. I did just read that if you are running Vista Business or Ultimate (I am running Ultimate) that the bit locker protection feature will keep from loosing restore points in Vista. Haven't tried it yet and probably won't bother as I am pretty much using Vista only. |
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Apr 22 2007, 04:39 PM
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 Still visually handicapped, new avatar :0) Group: Moderator Posts: 14,703 Joined: 2-October 05 From: Southeastern CT, USA Member No.: 35,824 |
I haven't read of any fixes for that problem when dual-booting, but then again I NEVER depend upon System Restore - it has failed too many times when I've needed it (FYI - it's probably my fault that it failed because of my tinkering)
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