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?
Dual boot XP with Vista
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pat mcgroin
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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_vista_and_xp_with_vista_installed_first__the_stepbystep_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_vista_with_xp__stepbystep_guide_with_screenshots.htm
This is a step by step dual boot XP/vista guide if Vista is installed first.
http://apcmag.com/how_to_dual_boot_vista_and_xp_with_vista_installed_first__the_stepbystep_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_vista_with_xp__stepbystep_guide_with_screenshots.htm
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