I've had XP for a number of years, finally decided to install Vista but wanted to keep XP around until I knew all of my software worked great in Vista. Created a new partition and installed Vista - everything worked great for a month (was able to...
First of all I have been searching for about a week with no luck. and hours and hours of reinstalling configuring etc.I had 98 & Xp dual boot on a 933mhz 1g ram that was working fine on a single 400gb PATA drive with 2 partitions. That I used to...
Hi,I'm a newbie here - after finding vistahelpforum by googling for support forums for my particular problem. I hope someone in this community...
first i want to say hi all, nice forums
I want to reinstall Windows but when I insert My original XP CD and press "any key to continue", the screen goes black, Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can get this XP CD to boot? I've made 4 copy on diferent CD-R to see if this fix the problem and keep getting to the black screen, they work fine on my laptop and on my friend PC
I have partitions as follows:
Partition1 (Active): Windows Vista Installed
Partition2 : Windows XP Installed
Partition3: Just for docs.
I can boot to both of the OS's by setting each of the partitions to active.
WHen im in vista i have edited the {ntldr} entry in bcdedit and tried everything to get it to load xp from the second partition.
One thing i cant understand but have tried with and without is the "path" option. How can it be setting it to \ntldr when i have not got a folder called ntldr on any parition.
I have set partition to D: and to E: and no luck..
I did the recommended "try it first" XP dual boot with Vista on a partition D:, I liked it and did a clean install over XP on C:.... now I have two copies of Vista and want to get rid of the first one on D: to get rid of the dual boot.
Can I just delete or format the D: partition?
Thanks
Stans
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I am having problems booting XP professional, will only boot in safe mode. I want to upgrade to Vista anyway, will purchasing and loading Vista be unwise or will it just overrule the XP problem?
