Hi. I am having problems dual booting both Vista x64 and XP SP2. Vista
is currently installed, so I shrank the HDD volume and created a new
partition called "E", then formatted to NTFS. But, when I boot off my
comp to install XP on this partition, the partition isn't there?

Any help is appreciated, thanks.


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Hi. I am having problems dual booting both Vista x64 and XP SP2. Vista
is currently installed, so I shrank the HDD volume and created a new
partition called "E", then formatted to NTFS. But, when I boot off my
comp to install XP on this partition, the partition isn't there?

Any help is appreciated, thanks.

Do you see only the first partition?


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"rewindurmind" wrote in message
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Hi. I am having problems dual booting both Vista x64 and XP SP2. Vista
is currently installed, so I shrank the HDD volume and created a new
partition called "E", then formatted to NTFS. But, when I boot off my
comp to install XP on this partition, the partition isn't there?

Any help is appreciated, thanks.







I advise you to NOT install XP after Vista

you will end up with problems...


VIZ: Vista will not boot
and you'd have to repair the boot loader. etc

If your Vista installation is working OK,
then don't bother with XP

Create the partittion from the freespace you have using the XP install drive
during the install.

"rewindurmind" wrote in message
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Hi. I am having problems dual booting both Vista x64 and XP SP2. Vista
is currently installed, so I shrank the HDD volume and created a new
partition called "E", then formatted to NTFS. But, when I boot off my
comp to install XP on this partition, the partition isn't there?

Any help is appreciated, thanks.


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rewindurmind

Hi,

Don't create the volume, just the free space. Allow XP setup to create the
volume and format it as it cannot install to one created under Vista due to
minor changes in the way the file system is implemented.

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"rewindurmind" wrote in message
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Hi. I am having problems dual booting both Vista x64 and XP SP2. Vista
is currently installed, so I shrank the HDD volume and created a new
partition called "E", then formatted to NTFS. But, when I boot off my
comp to install XP on this partition, the partition isn't there?

Any help is appreciated, thanks.


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rewindurmind

John Barnes;876519 Wrote:
Create the partittion from the freespace you have using the XP install
drive
during the install.

"rewindurmind" wrote in message
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Hi. I am having problems dual booting both Vista x64 and XP SP2.
Vista
is currently installed, so I shrank the HDD volume and created a new
partition called "E", then formatted to NTFS. But, when I boot off my
comp to install XP on this partition, the partition isn't there?

Any help is appreciated, thanks.


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rewindurmind


Tried, there is none...


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rewindurmind

Hi rewindurmind,

you may want to delete the "e" partition to just leave the free space
that you can then use to create the xp partition during install.
once you have installed XP - on first reboot eyou will need to do a
start-up repair from you vista dvd. you can then use EasyBCD or
VistaBootPro to set-up the dual boot from within vista


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barman58;876527 Wrote:
Hi rewindurmind,

you may want to delete the "e" partition to just leave the free space
that you can then use to create the xp partition during install.
once you have installed XP - on first reboot eyou will need to do a
start-up repair from you vista dvd. you can then use EasyBCD or
VistaBootPro to set-up the dual boot from within vista

Hi. Thanks, I tried this and is still not working.


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rewindurmind schreef in bericht ...

barman58;876527 Wrote:
Hi rewindurmind,

you may want to delete the "e" partition to just leave the free space
that you can then use to create the xp partition during install.
once you have installed XP - on first reboot eyou will need to do a
start-up repair from you vista dvd. you can then use EasyBCD or
VistaBootPro to set-up the dual boot from within vista

Hi. Thanks, I tried this and is still not working.

What does not working? What do you see? What did you trying?
Have you a normal XP-CD? Do you startup with it?

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On Sat, 1 Nov 2008 19:05:32 -0500, "philo" wrote:

I advise you to NOT install XP after Vista

You're the guy who told a person to create a black JPG and use that to
get a black desktop background too.

Your advice is questionable.

DDW
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