I know this has been asked a billion times and being a member for so long I should know better... But I did do a quick search and ended up with nothing... So here it goes. I just bought a new laptop and it comes with Vista Home Premium. I want to put XP Pro SP2 on it for obvious reasons... I'm working on creating a custom disk with nLite for the XP install and don't want to clear out Vista until it works perfectly. So do I just install XP to the second partition I've created and create a modified boot.ini file?
I researched this before and made some notes on it, but have never attempted to dual-boot xp to a vista pre-install. On the links are the directions that I found. vista preinstalled than xp added later http://www.pro-networks.org/forum/about88231.html http://www.pro-networks.org/forum/about92429.html
Thank you... Makes sense, I tried partitioning the drive and installing XP... Well that turned into a 3 hour fiasco trying to make Vista the working OS without losing any data I have...
