how do i dual boot xp with vista?

Question

i bought a new computer and it has come with windows vista home premium which is great and looks smart and all that BUT i cant play some games i used to that are older and a lot of hardware i have struggles to work. ive read about dual booting so how do i do it?
i was going to buy a secondary 40gb hard drive and windows xp disk, do i just insert the xp disk and tell it to install on the new hard drive ive bought? thanks for any help :)

Answer 1

http://apcmag.com/5485/dualbooting_vista_and_xp

Answer 2

I've been wondering this myself as I'm getting a new laptop soon with Vista but something you may look into is a virtual emulation server such as www.vmware.com. I used them to host a private World Of Warcraft server but it has the capabilities to run different operating systems like XP on the same drive as another operating system. It does require the operating system disk, in your case XP.

Answer 3

you might need to change the primary boot device to your cd/dvd drive in the bios first before installing, but xp should install onto a blank hard drivre or partition with no problems. it will auto boot into vista but you do have 30 (ish) seconds to choose which operating system you want. it seems to work happily on my system anyway. good luck

Answer 4

If XP and Vista are capable of dual boot, which they should be, then you'l probably want another drive or partition to install to. During the installation choose Advanced setup and choose the location you want the OS installed to.

Answer 5

yeah - because its an older os it will automatically ask you to install to anothe rlocation as it cannot downgrade

Answer 6

be patient ,all your updates will fly in soon dont worry just wait ....