How To Install 32 & 64 Dual Boot 4 Drives 2 Licensces
Mar 23, 2008
I have been loking but not finding instructions to install 32 and 64 bit Vista ( yes I have 2 seperate licensce -am not trying to cheat Microsoft). I had bought & installed 64 bit vista ultimate-however many devices and programs not compatible. So I bought the 32 bit version as well (i have an individual licensce for each version). SO in stalled the 32 bit version (wiped out the 64 as it interfered with the install). After a week of being on 32 bit, I find that I would also like to install the 64 bit version on a hard drive other thatn the 32 bit install.
I have scoured the Inet and MS sites but only see references to XP and Vista etc. Can anyone really help or point me to install instructions that will guide me on how to now install 64 bit vista so I can enjoy dual booting into either at BOOT? Please don't flame me for not being a genius...... but evrything I find is vague or does not adequately address the question.
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Mar 26, 2008
I have been loking but not finding instructions to install 32 and 64 bit Vista ( yes I have 2 seperate licensce -am not trying to cheat Microsoft). I had bought & installed 64 bit vista ultimate-however many devices and programs not compatible. So I bought the 32 bit version as well ( i have an individual licensce for each version). SO in stalled the 32 bit version (wiped out the 64 as it interfered with the install). After a week of being on 32 bit, I find that I would also like to install the 64 bit version on a hard drive other thatn the 32 bit install. I have scoured the Inet and MS sites but only see references to XP and Vista etc. how to now install 64 bit vista so I can enjoy dual booting into either at BOOT?
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May 9, 2008
I have 2 HD's. One has XP Pro, the other Vista Home Premium. I want to dual boot. I got Acronis and installed it's OS Selector. It only seems to recognize the OS on the first drive. I tried making another partition on the XP drive (since that is the one I am not wanted to reformat at the moment). I have enough space showing, 63GB but I could only get it to make a small 7GB partition
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Feb 19, 2010
i just got my 500gb Seagate drive back after it bricked from the little firmware issue they had. I also just purchased a 1TB WD drive. I don't really trust the Seagate any more and want to use the 1tb drive as a backup. I had backed up everything 6 months ago but it's amazing how much stuff you accumulate in 6 months time.
I am not too knowledgable in hardrives. Not enough to do anything complicated. Right now i am running Vista Ultimate 64 on the Seagate. Could i put another copy of Vista on the 1tb drive and just copy what i want over to it? That way if the Seagate dies again i can go right to the other drive. This will not be an external drive, just another bare drive in the bay. I realize i'm not going about it the best or most efficient way. Some people have explained better ways but most of it was over my head. I just want to be able to unplug the bad drive (if it goes bad) and continue with the other drive. So, would i run into any problems with Vista (not dual boot of course)on both my drives? Does it sound like this approach would work?
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Mar 26, 2008
I have built a new system to game with and have 2 new hard drives, on one I put XP Pro and then on the other I loaded Vista. I have more or less completed all the driver upgrades and windows updates but I keep getting repeated boot failures of Vista. I can always get into Safe mode but in Normal mode the boot fails just after the first spash screen at the point when the screen goes blank to be replaced by the small circular
Vista logo. After 2 or 3 attempts it succeeds to load but then the problem seems to reoccur, particularly when I have been back to XP for a while. I had a similar problem with XP but that seems to have sorted itself out. I have tired looking in the logs for faults and failures but no clues there.
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May 7, 2008
I am curious if Vista can be run from one of those portable external hard drives that I see in Staples, etc. rather than have to install another internal hard drive. I want to dual-boot with XP (already installed on an internal HD) and it would also be great if I can bring that external HD with us when we travel and hook it up to my wife's XP laptop and be able to boot up in Vista too. We need something for testing our software in Vista.
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Sep 3, 2008
Before anyone thinks "Oh another person asking how to install two OS's!!" Please take a seat and keep reading as I have spent literally hours trying to search other forums and sites for an answer to my problem. Upon upgrading my mobo + gfx card + ram + cpu my xp didn't want to boot. I found out the reason for this and took the following steps.
1 - Installed Vista Home premium x64 on a brand new Sata HDD.
2 - Transfered files from old hard drives to new Vista HDD to, in a sense, return my files programs etc to how they were before the "hardware misshap"
3 - All is fine and dandy..............
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Mar 23, 2008
I have a dual boot XP/Vista installed running fine until a few days ago i got a virus attack on my XP partition that I cannot get rid of. Now I want to re-install XP onto the XP partition. Is there anything I have to pay attention to before format the XP partition and re-install XP.
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Mar 26, 2008
I have a dual boot XP/Vista installed running fine until a few days ago i got a virus attack on my XP partition that I cannot get rid of. Now I want to re-install XP onto the XP partition. Is there anything I have to pay attention to before format the XP partition and re-install XP. XP was originally install first and then follow by Vista.
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Jun 19, 2008
There are many articles on how to dual boot Vista and XP, but I want to dual boot Vista and Vista, with an existing installation, on 2 Hard Drives. Currently I switch these in the BIOS, but I'd much rather chose at a later stage, can this be done? Why? Because I keep one of the drives for random software that I rarely use.
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Jul 8, 2008
I have (or had) Vista Business on my HP Pavilion dv2670br and I also installed opensolaris on it. I had read this article (Vista SP1 won't install on dual-boot systems: Microsoft) before installing the SP with the stand alone file downloaded from MS's website, but since I did not have Enterprise or Ultimate I didn't think I would have problems. Silly me.
Now I do not know if it is the grub loader itself or the fact that opensolaris uses ZFS. I tried going through the steps here: Recovering the Vista Bootloader from the DVD - NeoSmart Technologies Wiki, to no avail. I suspect I will have to go through a very destructive process, but thankfully I won't really lose much since it is a relatively new laptop with very little university work on it.
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Mar 24, 2008
I am planning to have a dual-boot but I want to install an older version of OS. I purchased the notebook with Windows Vista HomeBasic installed and I want to install Windows XP for some compatibility reasons. Would it just be OK if I'll do it that way?
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Jun 8, 2008
When I log on to my Vista Ultimate desktop, numerous startup programs that I have acquired over the years fire up, many of them parking themselves in the system tray. Since 95% of my computer use is low-demand web surfing and word processing, the many running programs don???t bother me, and I am glad to have them at hand. But once in awhile I like to run Flight Simulator or edit home videos; at those times, I???d like Vista to be running nearly bare-bones. Many of the startup programs exist for all users, so it doesn???to simply create a new user for gaming or graphics. Is there any way to have a pre-prepared profile having a radically minimized set of startup programs? I know I can simply click them off through msconfig or control panel, but that is pretty cumbersome. I???ve considered a separate install with dual-boot. (Side issue ??? would that present any validation issues?)
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Jul 24, 2009
I've never dual-booted a system before and I'm interested in dual-booting my Vista with XP. I know they have to be on separate drives (though I'm under the impression that a partition is good enough... is that true?) but my question is: do I need to install separate instances of all of my programs (e.g. Steam, Office, Firefox, etc.) or can I just point XP to their locations and everything will work fine?
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May 9, 2009
Had vista & windows 7 dual booting & then i installed xp pro & lost my dual boot. How can i get it back?
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Mar 23, 2008
is it unheard of to dual-boot Vista x64 on a dual-core computer with x32 on an external drive (same software package)?
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Mar 23, 2008
I have windows xp installed right now and I dual booted with vista by re-partitioning my hard drive. After encountering problems with vista I delted the vista partition and resized the xp partition back to it's original size. I am now stuck with the windows vista boot loader which persistantly telling me that the windows vista files are not present etc. etc. Is there any way that I can delted the vista bootloader and go back to using the xp bootloader?
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Oct 12, 2009
I built a new machine.Running Vista Home premium,8GB of Ram,Phenom11 3.2MHz.
I have 2 hard drives.First one portioned to C: and D:
Second HD portioned into D: and E: I have Vista on C drive.I would like to Dual Boot Vista with Windows7.
My question is do I need a Boot loader application or does vista have the ability to dual boot?
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Mar 23, 2008
I have more or less completed all the driver upgrades and windows updates but I keep getting repeated boot failures of Vista. I can always get into Safe mode but in Normal mode the boot fails just after the first spash screen at the point when the screen goes blank to be replaced by the small circular Vista logo. After 2 or 3 attempts it succeeds to load but then the problem seems to reoccur, particularly when I have been back to XP for a while.
I had a similar problem with XP but that seems to have sorted itself out. I have tired looking in the logs for faults and failures but no clues there. I am running an ASUS P5E MB with Intel Quad 6600, 4Gig RAM, GeForce 8800GT and 2x250Gig HDs.
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Mar 24, 2008
XP is on 1st primary partition [active] and is old. Vista is on 2nd Primary partition and is new. Dual boot info, I believe, is all on the XP partition. Soon I will want to go to Vista only. Do I just delete the XP partition (after imaging it, of course!) and set
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Mar 23, 2008
I have installed Vista on my C: disk. After that I installed XP on D: disk. Now I can't boot Vista anymore.
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Mar 8, 2009
I was running dual boot fine between XP and Vista now im running both Vista it only reads my newly installed drive on boot and i have no boot options as you do in XP/Vista installs, im a newbie to dual drives and was wondering how to set it to have boot options now!
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Mar 26, 2008
I searched all over the internet for this simple (I think) problem, but I couldn't find any solutions. I have installed Vista on my C: disk. After that I installed XP on D: disk. Now I can't boot Vista anymore. I tried with boot.ini. I've read that there's a program called bcdedit.exe. I tried to make that one work on XP, but I failed.
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Feb 11, 2009
I have an Existing Vista install on HD1 and want to install Windows 7 on HD2.Was going to make HD2 the Primary Drive. Is there a way I can alternately boot to the HD1 Drive if I need to?
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Apr 29, 2009
Want to set up Raid 1 for two identical drives, not boot. One has some data on it, other empty. Have vista ultimate 64. Do I have to reinstall?
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Apr 13, 2009
I have a few laptops part of our domain. They are connected to a few network printers and mapped to a few shares. When the laptops are connected to the domain network they boot just fine. But when they are unconnected to the network the time from power on to login screen triples. And the time from login to functioning desktop also triples. I am thinking that this is a timeout issue where windows is trying to connect to shared resources that are unavailable. Is there ways to reduce the timeout threshold for these services? If so where?
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Feb 6, 2009
I have a HP pavilion laptop which came with 64 bit vista ultimate pre-installed. I shrinked the OS partition (160 GB), created new partition (40 GB) for 64 bit windows 7 ultimate. After installation of Windows 7, I cannot see the vista ultimate boot option when I boot my PC. When I boot into Windows 7, I still can see the vista partition. But instead of C: it is now displayed as E: I used the HP Recovery Disc to repair windows vista but I can only see a blank blue screen with the mouse pointer. How can I recover the vista?
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Apr 8, 2009
I have an old Dell Dimension 8250 test PC that I would like to install Vista onto. However, it has no DVD drives. I cannot even boot from external USB drives (3.5" disk drive, external HDDs, and DVD burner drive -- CMOS doesn't see them and found out PC doesn't support bootable USB devices). However, I do have enough HDD space (30 GB free on second partition) to copy Vista DVD (or make an ISO file) onto it through network (will take a while).
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Sep 16, 2008
I wanted my computer do dual-boot with XP, so i made a new partition called F, and then i ran the XP CD and installed in F the CD. But now, when booting, it only shows Windows XP Professional. Have i accidentally formatted my VIsta? Because my programs from Vista are still there.
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Oct 1, 2006
I would like to dual boot im running xp pro at the moment and wanted to add vista to. But i have never tried it before
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Feb 22, 2009
I have Vista Home Premium on C:. There are a few programs that
won't run under Vista, and I've read that dual booting in easy under Vista.
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install XP on it and use it to dual boot?
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