Comments on: Set XP as the Default OS in a Windows Vista Dual-Boot Setup

By: alex

alex — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:22:37 +0000

i have the reverse problem, i have both xp and vista and i want to run vista but i dont know how

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:53:19 +0000

Thanks for the tip.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 05:30:29 +0000

I have a problem of shrink my hdd in vista, in order to create partition for linux, any help? Thanks

By: MKH Sabbir

MKH Sabbir — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:25:19 +0000

I have Windows Vista Original installed in my Laptop. I just want to Install another Operating System Win XP with Service Pack 2 without affecting my Vista installed. How best you guys can help me in this regard.
My planning:
As far as I know always the earlier should be installed first and later the latest.
Thanks and regards for all,
Sabbir

By: Kadkhoda

Kadkhoda — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:14:14 +0000

There is a hardware alternative to mutli-boot.
If you boot into DOS via a floppy or a USB memory stick or a bootable CD; (my Toshiba notebook can boot from a memory stick and older notebooks had a floppy); then running GDISK from Norton (like FDISK) you can change the active partition to the OS you want.
Ctrl Alt Del starts from that partition.

By: kc

kc — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:08:23 +0000

Hmmm. I had a dual boot setup XP Media Edition (drive C) and VISTA Ultimate on Drive D
Someting went askew. Got XP media Edition back but NO access to VISTA right now
I understand that the VistaPro bootloader progie can fix it,or a ‘reinstall’ of VISTA fdrom within XP running. install Vista DVD, do thru motions and pick the D drive again. Did something similar with XP and it fixed my problems. IF I had a lot less proggies in the machine Id do a virgin install!
PLEASE e me back at kctobyjoe1@verizon.net if U would PLEASE!

By: keiki

keiki — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:30:39 +0000

i have a vista home premium and am running xp using virtual box. however, i have a big problem, i want to back up my documents in xp but it won’t read my dvd/disc drive. can someone please help.

By: edward

edward — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 06:09:06 +0000

i was able to install my motorola pc tool to my laptop using vista os. but each time i try to make internet connection, it won’t accept it, but on xp it does, how can i make vista accept usb internet connectivity

By: new_geek

new_geek — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:09:10 +0000

To uninstall vista all you need is the XP cd. You just have to insert the cd, wait for the installation to boot up. Once you are in the blue screen menu, you should delete the partition containing Windows Vista and later create a new partition from the Un partitioned space. Then install XP on this new partition. This way is the only one I have found to completely remove Vista from my PC. However, if yout computer is a new laptop specially, you should check if you have the drivers for all your components. I tried to change back to XP, but my Toshiba computer only has drivers for Windows Vista. Hope this helps…

By: me

me — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 04:00:02 +0000

Michael, I’m feeling the same way. I am going nuts with this Vista thing. It sucks! I’m about to put my $1400 machine aside and start using my 7 year old computer with XP, because it works. Vista might do a lot of cool things that MAC users might think are nifty… but it doesn’t work!