I took this screenshot after Vista was installed, so I'm not sure what the? In Vista, the disk is called "Vista. Choose your newly created V: drive as the installation location, and let 'er rip. Vista will spend lots of time copying files and restarting your machine. All goes well in installation-ville, and you'll set up your first administrative Vista user and go from there. Note: Vista didn't have the drivers for a whole bunch of the devices on my machine, like the sound card, video card, USB Wifi adaptor, dialup modem or Ethernet card, so be prepared to have all the driver disks that came with your computer you did save your driver disks, didn't you?
Now, once you restart your computer, you'll get a choice to boot into XP or Vista. Click image to enlarge. The default choice is Vista, and you have 25 seconds to make another choice. Otherwise it boots into Vista automatically. I'm sure one can change this behavior; something to research. There's much to be discussed regarding Vista, so this is the first of a series of posts that will do so over the next few weeks. If you're feeling brave and wildly curious and not afraid to completely destroy your PC with unstable code, take a stab at a Vista installation and let us know how it goes.
Everyone else? Post your questions and comments about Vista below or send us an email at tips at lifehacker. The A. About Lifehacker Advisor Lifehacker Store. By Gina Trapani. Wyze Cam Spotlight. Tech Internet. If you were like me and compley reformatted your hard drive and wiped out XP when you installed Vista, your setup is going to be a little more complicated.
Follow these steps:. Dual boot has now been configured on your computer. You will be able to enjoy the enhancements of Windows Vista without giving up the ability to run older applications that require Windows XP.
The next two sections will help you configure both versions on your computer, depending on what OS you have installed first: Windows XP is installed If you want to dual boot XP and Vista and XP is already installed on your computer you will not have to do much work to dual boot vista. Windows Vista is installed If you were like me and compley reformatted your hard drive and wiped out XP when you installed Vista, your setup is going to be a little more complicated.
When the setup is finished, your computer will automatically boot into Windows XP. Boot your computer to the Windows Vista install DVD , click Next on the regional settings screen and then click on Repair your computer in the lower left of the window.
Select your Windows Vista install and then run the Startup Repair. This will fix the Windows Boot Manager and Vista will once again startup automatically. Type select disk 0 to select the disk, and clean to delete any existing partitions on it. Keep in mind that when you create a partition in diskpart, you must enter its size in megabytes. To calculate the size of the Vista partition that you need to enter in the following step, take the size in gigabytes and multiply by A calculator will definitely help Verify that the steps worked by typing list partition.
Now, we must make the XP partition active. Type select partition 2 , and then type active to make it active. Type exit to exit diskpart. Insert the XP CD and boot from it. When prompted to select the location to which to install Windows, choose "C: Partition2". Format the partition as NTFS.
Proceed with Windows XP setup as you normally would. Once XP has been installed, you can tweak it to your liking Before we can actually install Vista, there is an important thing we must do, viz. If this is not done, then Vista will install its boot files onto the partition on which you have just installed XP. Although both XP and Vista will work, you will not be able to remove or format the XP partition in the future without repairing Vista.
Boot from the Vista DVD. Click "Next" and click "Install Now". Don't enter your product key. Click Next click No if asked whether to continue without a valid key. On the next screen, select the exact version of Windows Vista that you have a product key for.
If you select the wrong one, you will have to reinstall Vista all over again in order to be able to use your purchased product key; you WILL be required to enter your product key when activating Windows. Now that you have Vista installed and working, you may have noticed that there is no way to get into XP.
Thankfully, getting XP into the boot menu is not particularly difficult. Thus, a copy of ntldr must be installed on the Vista partition. Open My Computer. Select "Show hidden files and folders" and uncheck "Hide extensions for known file types" and "Hide protected operating system files recommended ". Click OK.
Open drive D the partition on which you installed Windows XP. Copy the files "ntldr", "ntdetect. Open drive C and drag the files in. Note that a UAC dialog may pop up asking for confirmation. Click Start and type cmd.
Right-click on cmd. Type the following:. Now that you have Windows XP and Vista installed on the same computer, you may install drivers and software. Remember to activate your copies of Windows within 30 days; before you activate, however, make sure that Windows runs correctly, and that everything is set up the way you want it.
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