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engage16
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_ 		1. December 2008 @ 15:58 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I know this has been asked a billion times and being a member for so long I should know better... But I did do a quick search and ended up with nothing... So here it goes.

I just bought a new laptop and it comes with Vista Home Premium. I want to put XP Pro SP2 on it for obvious reasons... I'm working on creating a custom disk with nLite for the XP install and don't want to clear out Vista until it works perfectly. So do I just install XP to the second partition I've created and create a modified boot.ini file?
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_ 		1. December 2008 @ 21:20 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I researched this before and made some notes on it, but have never attempted to dual-boot xp to a vista pre-install. On the links are the directions that I found.


vista preinstalled than xp added later
http://www.pro-networks.org/forum/about88231.html
http://www.pro-networks.org/forum/about92429.html
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engage16
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_ 		1. December 2008 @ 23:59 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Thank you... Makes sense, I tried partitioning the drive and installing XP... Well that turned into a 3 hour fiasco trying to make Vista the working OS without losing any data I have...
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Laptop- AMD Athlon X2 64 @1.9ghz, 4gb ddr2 @667mhz, 120 gb hdd, nVidia GeForce 8200m, 8x DVD-DL Burner, 15.4" widescreen, Windows 7 Ultimate
V9 PS2 with clear blue fliptop& swapmagic 3.6
iPhone 3G 8GB OS 3.0 Jailbroken w/ MMS and Tethering Enabled
30gb Black Video iPod
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