How to dual boot Vista and XP (with Vista installed first) -- the step-by-step guide with
screenshots
UPDATED | Got a Vista PC and want to
install XP so you can dual-boot between them? Here's how to do it, in
an easy, step-by-step format.
Page 1 - Intro
Scenario: You want
to install Vista on your PC
alongside your
XP installation, on the same drive. You have installed
Vista already. (If you have XP installed first, check out our earlier
tutorial on
how to dual boot Vista and XP with XP installed first.)
Tutorial Summary: We need to shrink the Vista
partition on the hard disk and create enough space for an installation
of XP. This can be done in three ways - using the
GPartEd Live CD, the
DISKPART utility on the Vista DVD or the Vista Disk Management GUI -
and we'll cover all three. We'll then install XP and install
EasyBCD to
reinstate the Vista
bootloader which will be overwritten during the XP
installation, and then use
EasyBCD to configure Vista's
bootloader to
boot the XP partition.
Updated September 2008:
This is an updated tutorial, based on our first Windows Vista/XP
dual-booting workshop. The main differences are that we are now using
Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3.
EasyBCD has also been updated and
this makes some of the steps in our first tutorial redundant - the
whole process is now easier.
This tutorial has been tested on a
VMWare 6 Workstation.
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