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AndrewT
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Posted: 24th Feb 2008 00:06
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I'm getting ready to dual boot Windows XP and Vista on my PC and I was wondering if you guys have experience with it. Are there any problems you've experienced? Was it worth it? Any thoughts are appreciated.
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bitJericho
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Posted: 24th Feb 2008 00:33
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Just make sure you do vista last, or you'll have to monkey with the boot loader.

Otherwise, you're fine. I'm dual booting vista and ubuntu. When I get a new hdd, I'll be tri-booting with xp as well, for lan parties (vista sucks at lan parties


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AndrewT
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Posted: 24th Feb 2008 00:35
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Thanks for the advice.
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Mr Z
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I try to tripple boot ubuntu, xp and vista as well, and at the moment I try to make vista and xp and work correctly (did install vista first, so now I have some serius trouble).

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bitJericho
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well, you would install xp, then vista, then ubuntu.

Otherwise you've got some configuring to do. There's lots of guides on google if you look around.


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Mr Z
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The configurations about making ubuntu work is not that hard at all, I have done them many times now. The peoblem is that when I try to boot into xp I get an weired error of some sort and the OS refuses to start.

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Jeku
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Posted: 24th Feb 2008 19:56
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Ubuntu was a pain in the butt to get my Nvidia 8800GT working, but I found a great script called Envy that did everything. It even recognized and set up my 24" LCD screen


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Mr Z
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Yeah, Envy rocks!

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Dazzag
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Personally I used a new drive just for Vista just in case. Works fine with XP Pro on one drive and Vista Ulimate on another.

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spooky
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That's what I have done with my new pc. One drive for XP and one for Vista. Then use an 'icy box' sata drive swappable enclosure thingy to swap the drives around as needed. I'm still using XP drive 90% of the time because of some weird old work programs that don't work in Vista. I'm just using vista for games and playing around with stuff.

The reason I didn't go for a dual boot system is because of the one problem that is widely reported, in that restore points get wiped out when swapping between os's, specially when you boot into XP and it wipes out any Vista restore points. There are some workarounds though that some people say work and some say they don't.

Anyway, I'm happy with my setup and at the end of the day when Vista does everything I need, I'll simply wipe the XP drive and use both drives internally and dump the hot-swap system.

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jasonhtml
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i have a dual boot system with XP and Vista. no problems. its pretty easy to set up(even though i installed them in the wrong order, it wasn't that hard to fix)

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Mr Z
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How would you fix it? I have problems with my xp and vista. Vista works, but when I try to boot into xp I just get an wiered error about not finding some essesial part of the system. Anyone knows how to solve this?

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Satchmo
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Posted: 25th Feb 2008 23:55 Edited at: 25th Feb 2008 23:55
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Repair, it will most likely tell you the boot settings are screwed up and it will fix them, you wont actually have to repair xp. Thats how I fixed my Vista.

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