Dual boot vista with xp? Problems?

[napalmnthemorning]

Yes, you delete the Vista partition, boot from your XP CD into the recovery console and run fixboot. That restores the XP bootloader, so you won't get the OS selection menu anymore at startup, and it'll boot right into XP like it normally does in a single-boot setup.

I've done this about 15-20 times after dual booting XP and Vista betas. Making a TrueImage or Ghost disk image like NR says also can give you reliability in recovery if you encounter some problem.

 

[failurbydesign]

i dont know how to makie an image...my hard drive is huge like 160 gb and im using like 68 GB..wouldnt that take a bunch of dvd's? Im a bit confused...

 

[LeeJend]

These days you make an image to another HD. DVD's are too small. When I upgrade I keep my old HD to store an image on. That only works until your new drive fills up beyond the old drives capacity.

 

[failurbydesign]

so tnen what do ido? I dont want to have to "redo" my whole pc..its a pain..