Adding Windows XP To A Vista Machine

AllieVi said:

I have a relatively new notebook that came with Vista and I want to add Windows XP for dual-boot use. I set up a partition for XP using Acronis Disk Director, but nothing happens when I click on “Install Now” (or whatever the message is) from the XP Professional installation disk. I get no response of any kind.

Any suggestions from someone who has successfully added XP? TIA

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AllieVi said:

I have a relatively new notebook that came with Vista and I want to add Windows XP for dual-boot use. I set up a partition for XP using Acronis Disk Director, but nothing happens when I click on “Install Now” (or whatever the message is) from the XP Professional installation disk. I get no response of any kind.

Any suggestions from someone who has successfully added XP? TIA

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Jared Twomey said:

I did the same thing with a new Dell I bought. Here's how i did it....

Booted into Vista and using the built in drive manager split my primary drive make a seperate partition for XP.

Then shut it down, rebooted with the XP disk in the drive. Installed on the new partition like you normally would.

Then put in the Vista disk/recovery disk, and reinstall Vista.

If XP is there when you install Vista, vista will automatically add it to the boot loader.


There may be a better way to do it... but thats how I did it.

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