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Hi. I'm currently running Vista on a raid 0 array, and want to dual with XP. I have two partitions, one with vista and the other that I tried installing XP on. After it finishes the initial installation and restarts it says to press any key to boot from the CD. I wait without pressing anything and than it says that there was an error reading the disk. If I remember correctly, after it restarts it goes strait into windows setup. This happens every time I try restarting, but I can get back into vista by putting the hard drive to boot first. In vista I can see the other partition where XP was installed, and inside is just a folder titled WINDOWS and it seems like all the windows files are in there. Any help?

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The problem is I can't get into XP after installing it, the guide explains how to get back into Vista after installing XP. I can only get into Vista.

Reply to capi

First tried to install XP .. while i already had Vista..

Then i uninstalled vista.. Ran XP....
THEN installed VISTA...
WORKED PERFECT..
WHen u start the comp.. it asks if u want to run vista or older OS

Reply to wah_gwan

There are ways to dual boot xp and vista no matter which OS is installed first. Here are the step by step guides with screen shots.

This is a step by step dual boot XP/vista guide if Vista is installed first.

http://apcmag.com/how_to_dual_boot [...] _guide.htm

Just incase anybody else wants this then here is the easy dual boot guide with XP installed first.

http://apcmag.com/how_to_dualboot_ [...] nshots.htm

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another good program for Vista or Xp is Vistabootpro

http://www.vistabootpro.org/

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