Hi.

I'm trying to set up my computer to support both Vista and Xp. I've googled it and the most I can figure is that I have to set up my hardrive with another partition and load Xp onto that. I can't, however, find any instruction at all on how to do that.

I would appreciate any help in the area.

 

You can do this in Windows (disk management is the program I think) or use a different software like Paragorn Partition Manager.

If you only have one HDD you'll have no choice but to do it directly before the installation. Windows gives you the opportunity to format and partition your harddrives. Here is a microsoft article on how to do that.

€dit: Yeah, I would agree that you should choose Win7. Why do you want both Vista and XP?

 

My computer already has Vista on it. I'm trying to ad Xp so that I can play a few games that I have that aren't Vista compatible. I don't want to have to reinstall everything else, though.

Thanks for the help.

 

Isnt it, if you install vista first, then install XP onto another partition, Vista gives you an option to dual boot?

 

Yeah, I got it to work. My problem was setting up another partition.

I finally managed it, though.

 

Yeah, that's precise. Had it been XP and you wanted to install Vista you would have been probably forced to do the annoying task of converting your Partition into NTFS (if the partition had been FAT 32). That's what the Installer asked me to do. You've to install XP without replacing Vista or in any other partition and Vista automatically gives you dual boot option as Midknight pointed out.

 

Vista OR XP? Pick one or the other. Preferably XP. It's better than Vista.