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Hi. I recently had to formate my entire laptop.

Duel booted vista and xp so am trying to do it again

I have done this a number times before in exactly the same way on the same machine and with the same cds with no problems

but now its not working

I have vista installed fine. i have 107gb unallocated space. i run xp (burned copy which has worked perfectly before) it goes to the bluescreen for formatting options ect. i do a full ntfs format on the unpartitioned space

restart to get to the installation of xp. (the screen with the new features and things)

then it restarts

no warning, no error message just a restart

and does this every time and roughly the same time.

Any suggestions?

Its worked before



Start over and INSTALL XP first...
Probably how it was done successfully the first time.I really dont want to since all my programs are installed on the vista partition.

and the way it was done the first couple of times was vista first then xp

it may be a bad sector in the hdd ill check nowPario is right.
Order of installation matters.
XP and Vista and NOT equal systems with mutual knowledge of co-existence.
XP evolved first, VISTA evolved later.
XP did not know VISTA was coming.
VISTA expects XP to be there.

You install XP first. Vista next. Always. Vista mangoes the dual boot process. Yes, even if XP is on the first partition, VISTA runs the show.

After you get it fixed. use a suitable tool to make a image of the dual installation and keep it in a safe place.I have done this many times before and i have always had vista installed first and it has always worked. I would like to know whats causing the xp installation to fail not how to dual boot.

But to put it to the test i hid vistas partition and tried again to no avail. now i just have to figure out how to make vistas partition active again without having to completely reinstall

any ideas?


thanks for the help so farYou are so persistent!
Did you read this:
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you'll no doubt be shocked to find there's no option to start Vista when you reboot. And while you can still see all your files in Windows Explorer, there's no way to load anything but the older operating system because XP has overwritten Vista's boot loader.
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=178390

Read the whole post and the replies.

 Like the man said. 'It's Déjà vu all over again.' 
Who said that?no..... cause you can repair your boot files with the vista recovery cd.

then back into vista you use easybcd to create a boot MANAGER on startup

not to sound ungratefull but the dual booting really isnt the problem as i have used exactly the same precdedure before and got it to work

im just wondering now if there is anything to solve this thing with xp. it wont install

i'd hazard a guess and say this would happen even if vista wasnt installed.

oh and i CHECKED the partition i made for xp for errors and there are none.



ps.. getting the vista partition to become active againw as a pain in the behind but got there eventually! :-)

I think i'll just pass on this ONE as i've seen too many "it can be done" stories this Month...its not so much it can be done as it HAS been done.

right lets imagine i didnt have vista installed. what do you reckon the cause could be?Patio, you told him the correct answer.    

He wants to prove he can do it again. He does not understand he forgot a step. He has to return to the original state of things.
Western thinking is that you can always duplicate a scenario.
Bur that tends to cause people to pass over details they think are not relevant.

Vista and some of its components were not designed so that you can just install and delete, reformat and re install an older system many times.

Now if he starts with a brand new PC, and brand new Hard Drive, a brand new copy of Vista and a good copy of XP, he may be able  to install Vista first and then install XP. Once. If the XP partition gets damaged, Vista may let him reformat the partition. But when he installs XP, Vista will disappear.

He just not get it.

Once you have Vista and XP together, you have to make an image of the dual-install. Unless you like problems.You have to have some method to get back to the original state where things worked. Xp can not do that for you. It does not know what Vista needs, unless Vista let some information.

Or, the sane method is to use a hardware method. Use two of three HDDs and put them is swap trays to the Operating systems will not fight.

Better yet, two computers and a Gigabit Ethernet.

I give up!
tbh i dont get why its not working.

Ive follwed the same tutorial i did just to make sure i didnt forget a step

its a fresh install of both programs. the same discs

the same size of partition

none of the hardware has changed

and you can recreate a scenario if every variable is the same

so there is an unseen vaiable that has nothing to do with the process of installing that is conflicting with xp's install and i am asking if anyone has any suggestions to what that unseen variable might be?


now if that isnt a detailed question that explains that EVERYTHING is EXACTLY the same as when i did it the first time in terms of hardware and general setup then i give up






if anyone knows why xp wont instal (ignoring vista being there can they please say


orginally i though ti could be the cpu overheating but it runs fin on vista

i thought the hdd had bad sectors. i ran checks it doesnt

there must be something im missing but please dont insult my intelligence by suggesting i missed a step in a very simple procedure.got it working

turns out there was a hefy scratch on both discs and the partition size wasnt quite big enough


but its possible to do yet again :-p


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