Please help me with duel booting xp on a pre installed vista.?

Question

i wont make this long cos no one will answer otherwise, but can anyone tell me how i can duel boot xp on installed vista if i have two hd's (c:) and (e:) drives. i go to partition and shrink the disk using diskpart in the custom instillation in the vista boot menu ( from the vista install disk) and i get the error.

the argumenst specified for this volume are not valid.

any help please

Answer 1

Firstly you need to install both OS's on the SAME drive (c:\, for example), just in case that wasn't 100% clear.



Secondly: http://apcmag.com/how_to_dualboot_vista_with_xp__stepbystep_guide_with_screenshots.htm seems like a decent guide to setting up a dual boot.

Answer 2

whats up, It gained't decelerate your computer, even though it will be complicated to get it to twin boot. XP will be a lot a lot less stressful than Linux, yet do you extremely opt to spend the money for XP? you may google twin-booting with Vista and also you may want to hit upon a how-to on a thanks to do it, even though it will be complicated. Regards, Brandon

Answer 3

I can try to help you in 4-5 sentences, or I can give you the link that I used to do it, and is a very robust and thorough guide:

http://apcmag.com/how_to_dual_boot_vista_and_xp_with_vista_installed_first__the_stepbystep_guide.htm

Answer 4

How many total number of partitions you have, including recovery partition. I have seen this, when I tried to add 5th partition on a iSCSI drive.