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USB Controllers Don't Work in XP after Installing Vista BETA 2
But firs take a look on this: Installing and uninstalling Windows Vista for dual-boot with XP http://www.istartedsomething. com/20060622/installing-and-uninstall-vista-beta-2-for-dual-boot-with-xp/ Uninstall After playing around with Vista for a few days, you may want to remove it from your system, and reclaim the

windows 64bit and multi-boot
2) Since Vista installs with a 4K cluster size, how can I increase the size after the fact? Third-party product. 3) Since I can't seem to find a third-party I used it throughout the Vista beta without any issues whatsoever. www.terabyteunlimited.com -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

restoring Vista boot loader
On 4/2/07, VistaDevil <cmonroyoliva...@gmail.com> wrote: First, there is no reason why you can't have Vista and XP machines running in the same network. Second, you can have two operating systems in the same hard drive; to get instructions on how to do it, just google for "dual boot vista xp" Third,

Please Help! Can't boot Vista after installing XP Pro
People who have had the chance to fiddle with the Vista beta build can confirm this. In fact, it seems to be lag- ging behind other operating systems, notably Mac OS X as was previously I have seen XP crippling Intel 4 machines to run at the speed of (or be as responsive as) UNIX equivalents on an Intel 2.

Computer Freezes - Power supply?
This is a good reason not to dual boot, but I don't see it as a problem with Vista. Computers upgrade, operating systems upgrade, file systems upgrade. And utilities upgrade with them. The tools we all used on NT 3.51 and NT4 either upgraded or died when Windows 2000 came out, and again when XP came out.

Uninstall Vista/ Windows Media Center
2. How are they/it partitioned? 3. Which is the System Partition? (DO NOT USE DRIVE LETTERS!! Tell me whether it is the first partition on the second HDD - or some other!) 4. Which is Vista's Boot Volume? (ditto!) 5. Which is WinXP's Boot Volume? (ditto again) With that info, we should be able to give you a short

Fwd: [YP] DLL:-- Windows XP Pro + SP3 + Vista Visualisations
David Putty linux-...@lycos.com comp os linux advocacy Roy Schestowitz wrote: A Linux User's Look at Vista Beta 2 ,----[ Quote ] ...once I could get What I do know is that even if it was installed conveniently on my main everyday harddrive, I still would find no reason to boot it other than this initial

Bush needs to clean up his mess
These are only a few of the new Vista features that can be enjoyed with or without the Aero Glass interface. Myth #5: You can't dual boot Vista with another It's true that some hardware vendors were slow to provide Vista drivers during the Vista beta testing period. By the time Vista launched to the consumer

USB Controllers Don't Work in XP after Installing Vista BETA 2
Now that we have settled that Windows XP can run natively on Intel Macs with or without Boot Camp, we don't need to bicker over this fact any more. (This partition is not necessary to install Vista Beta 1 or 2, however. In fact, Vista Beta 1 and 2 will not install on the Apple HD without removing the EFI

Gnu/Linux pre-installed
I have 4 hard drives and dual boot from the motherboard. I made sure not to do anything to mess with my primary OS WinXP MCE2005 by keeping it on a separate hard drive unlike some fools I keep reading about I've also got the Office beta and that I like. Office seems ready for prime time but Vista will probably slip

Vintage Vista: running Microsoft's newest OS on your older hardware
... 2 Xeon 3.25 GHz CPUs, 3 GB Ram Adaptec 29160N SCSI & 2 Seagate 74 GB 10K Drives + 2 WD 300 GB IDEs I have installed Vista from BETA 2 through RC1 & 2 and final on the first SCSI I've tried loading Vista from XP. At first restart neither disk is bootable and Vista has hosed the boot sector on the XP disk.

If Vista + CoH = TRUE then Install XP
(Apple's playing a game with the 2-5x faster claim.) John Steinberg: Irrational exuberance? The long-standing state of inertia in the Mac product line? I like shiny new things? Davoud The question is, what is the performance of Windows XP/Vista beta on same hardware. Yes, welcome to Microsoft territory.

How to activate Windows Vista beta1 without a network driver suppo
Doug dhan...@quickclic.net microsoft public windows vista installation_setup Asus PC-DL Deluxe, 2 Xeon 3.25 GHz CPUs, 3 GB Ram Adaptec 29160N SCSI & 2 Seagate 74 GB 10K Drives + 2 WD 300 GB IDEs I have installed Vista from BETA 2 through RC1 & 2 and final on the first SCSI drive and a second instance on the 2nd

dual boot xp and vista...with vista recovery dvd
Shipping dates and other things aside, the only way to find out if Novell has a chance against Microsoft is to have Vista Beta 2 and the pre-release version of SUSE Linux Vista accomplishes that task after the initial install, leaving most of the hardware identification chores for after the first boot up.

XP won't boot from a volume formated in WinPE 2 (Vista)
Once I get all the drives working properly, I'll try the multi boot option with Windows Vista Beta 2 on my 3rd drive - H. Thank you so much for you time and info, I'll be studying it from now until dawn <G> Bill "Timothy Daniels" wrote: You don't say which HD and which partition contains that boot.ini.

Virus issue relating to dual booting XP and Vista Beta 2
... with it being Vista and all. from Luke PS. ur so lucky you have got Vista "Summercooln...@gmail.com" wrote: I got a new computer (HP Pavilion m7490n) and installed Vista beta 2. After that my Windows XP is not bootable from the boot menu, and even the recovery / restore partition won't boot up either.

Booting to D
I previously had Vista Beta 2 on my computer, then formatted and have been using XP on that computer for a while. I got a copy of RC1, and it says it cannot install because it can't update the boot configuration, which I have no idea why, or if there's a log file somewhere, or what. Anyway, is there a place to post

Vista & External Storage Devices & NAS Boxes Problems & Issues
Bobb - b...@netscape.net microsoft public windows 64bit general microsoft public windows vista general microsoft public windowsxp general I downloaded my nth copy of X64 Subject: Multi boot x64 and x86 Beta 2 ? MD5 output: Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] C:\Documents and Settings\Bobb> cd c:\downloads

dual booting vist rc1 64 bit
I aquired two used WD hard drives and downloaded the Windows Vista Beta 2 and tried to do a clean install of Vista on those drives and not foul up my current Win XP. They have changed the set up in Vista version I am trying to install. Aparently the old F6 key is out during the install. From what I can tell Vista

Vista OEM Install Question.
You can order Vista beta 2 from Microsoft's site. It comes on a DVD for both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Use the 32-bit version. When Vista detects another version of Windows installed, it installs a boot manager that allows you to choose between them at startup. Even if you format the drive with Vista on it to