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XP and Vista, dual-boot?

Discussion in 'Acer' started by wahad, May 8, 2008.

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I have 5920g with centrino platform, i wanna install xp on d partition and wanna have dual boot with my preinstalled vista home premium. How can i install xp without formatting my partition and enable dual boot?
Thx in andvance

wahad, May 8, 2008

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I have 5920g with centrino platform, i wanna install xp on d partition and wanna have dual boot with my preinstalled vista home premium. How can i install xp without formatting my partition and enable dual boot?
Thx in andvance

When you boot to your Windows XP CD it will ask what partition you want to install it on. Also, download WindowsBootPro before you install XP.

I tried dual boot with my 5720 and once I installed XP, my Vista got corrupted somehow and I kept getting the blue screen of death so definitely backup everything before you do this.

Shhpaz, May 9, 2008

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Goto the BIOS and search for an entry called: SATA Native and Disable it

Hster2, May 12, 2008

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as Shpaz told you

Hster2, May 12, 2008

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