[Solved] Dual Boot Vista 64 and XP 32 with both already installed

Hey guys. I'm working with my new computer, with Vista 64 bit. I need to dual boot xp 32 for driver compatibility of my audio hardware. I don't have disks for XP. I imaged the hard drive of my old computer (running xp 32) onto a partition of the hard drive for my new computer, following the same procedure one would use when installing a secondary OS on a different partition. The problem is, of course, since I didn't "install" anything, XP is not recognized at boot, and Vista starts automatically. Is there a way to manually set up a dual boot, with both OS's already installed on different partitions? I'd like the end result to be the same as if I had installed one OS and then the other, where I can choose the OS at boot.

Thanks,
Eric

Ok. I followed those instructions, and am now given the choice between xp and vista at boot. Vista loads just fine, but xp takes longer than it typically should, and then hangs after the loading screen, right where one would choose a user (no option is given). I don't have the xp disk, so a repair install is not possible. I suspect that this has something to do with HDD drivers (or some other issue coming from hardware changes), but I don't really know how to fix that. Booting into xp safe mode also hangs.

Erock and others,

I'm running Vista 64 with a 2nd partition to boot XP32 so that I can use ProTools (which won't work on a 64 bit computer). I'm able to load all sort of drivers into the 32 bit XP, but not for the ProTools M-box. Anybody have any suggestions how I might get this to work?

Thanks!!

Lonny