Trouble Reinstalling Win XP From Vista64

[Skummel Maske]

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?

[Gollgagh]

can you not set the CD drive as the first boot device in your BIOS?

[Skummel Maske]

Haha, there we have it, thanks. If I'd been able to, I would really be blushing right now.

[Broken]

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.

[Gollgagh]

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

[Broken]

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

[phill]

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....