Windows Vista & Windows XP Dual


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O.k. My hard disk has 2 partitions, C: and D:, firstly, i have installed Windows XP in partition C:, then i have installed Windows Vista Beta 1 [5112] in the same partition. It's a fact, that vista made my Windows XP look like this [Windows.old]. So i made such changes to Windows vista's boot.ini, which is in C: Copied

- winload.exe

- wininit.exe

From your Windows Vista "system32" folder in same dir under XP in [Windows.old].

Now modify boot.ini, with "/USENEWLOADER" option.

Example:

[boot loader]

timeout=10

default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS

[operating systems]

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows Longhorn" /USENEWLOADER /FASTDETECT /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /USENEWLOADER /FASTDETECT /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN

Works fine, also i've copied all windows files from [Windows.old] to my D: partition, so it looks like this - D: - [Documents and Settings] - [windows] and [Program Files].

Boot works fine. as i've mentioned before, but when choose Windows XP, it starts loading, shows booting screen, and then no action, just blank screen....

Doesn't show user loading, and so on, just blank...

WHAT SHOULD I DO? HELP... HOW TO MAKE IT WORK? BECAUSE I WANT TO USE WINDOWS VISTA AND ALSO WINDOWS XP.... MAYBE MY INSTALLATION ORDER IS BAD? MAYBE I'VE SHOULD INSTALL THEM IN DIFFERENT PARTITIONS?

HELP...

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well .. i'm no big smartie about boot.ini .. but what i would do is start this all over again ... format that partition ... install winxp again .... then put vista on a serparate partition ......

if you can save winxp ... props to ya .... Windows XP and Windows Vista should be on Separate Partitions.... it states that in the readme for Vista..and for all versions of Longhorn at that

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I had the exact same problem, were it shows the OS boot screen that its loading, then the screen just goes tottally blank.

I found out its because I renamed the "Microsoft Windows Longhorn" to "Microsoft Windows Vista", but I changed it back again and it worked fine.

If that does apply to you just put in your XP disk, enter the recovery console and use the "fixboot" command, or you can just format and install again ;)

Make sure next time you install Vista you dont select your current Windows XP partition :rofl:

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