Skummel Maske Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 I've come to the conclusion that I'm not ready for Vista 64 yet, so I'll be going back to Windows XP until the 64-bit world stabilizes. I'm not sure if I should keep Vista 64 and just do a dualboot, but I'm having trouble getting the installation started. There doesn't seem to be any "boot from cd" prompt when I'm starting up, does Vista have a new way of doing this or something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollgagh Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 can you not set the CD drive as the first boot device in your BIOS? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skummel Maske Posted November 18, 2008 Author Share Posted November 18, 2008 Haha, there we have it, thanks. If I'd been able to, I would really be blushing right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broken Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 To answer one of your questions. It's best not to dual boot vista with XP. Vista has a different way of handling partitions and it doesn't play nice with other OSes. So, I'd suggest just reformatting completely and re-installing xp from scratch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollgagh Posted November 19, 2008 Share Posted November 19, 2008 To answer one of your questions. It's best not to dual boot vista with XP. Vista has a different way of handling partitions and it doesn't play nice with other OSes.So, I'd suggest just reformatting completely and re-installing xp from scratch. well what if you have them on different drives Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broken Posted November 19, 2008 Share Posted November 19, 2008 hmm, not exactly an expert on that b/c when I downgraded from vista to xp it was on my single hdd laptop. I had to reformat as well as change the drive type from like sata to nfts. If you have two different hard drives I imagine, you can have a different operating systems on each Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phill Posted November 19, 2008 Share Posted November 19, 2008 Dual booting XP and Vista is fine, just ignore Broken. There are a few hundred how to guides no less. Like these two http://apcmag.com/how_to_dual_boot_vista_and_xp_with_vista_installed_first__the_stepbystep_guide.htm http://www.syschat.com/dual-boot-vista-xp-vista-already-1946.html If you have the room, give XP atleast 12GB, one of those suggests 4 or 6 which is retarded.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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