Join Date Nov Posts It has 64bit Windows Vista installed. It came pre-installed in the system. I had created a separate partition where I want to add a 32bit Windows Vista. There are some set of programs which are not working in 64bit Windows. I think adding Vista 32bit separately would be more helpful in many ways. Is this possible. I do not want to loose my recovery partition here. Join Date Oct Posts Now when you reboot your computer, the more appropriate name in the Windows Boot Manager should be visible.
Raymond…why does everyone seem to presume that XP should be added after W7 is installed? So, we need a method of installing W7 on a partition of an existing XP installation. My way was to buy another disk and load W7 by itself. However, W7 loaded, without asking me, using a system partition to write its bootloader. I do know that W10 is very uncooperative when it comes to sharing boot time with other OSs. Hi, The article contains pretty much the same info as most other related articles.
However, as with those, there are two problems I and others often encounter which are not addressed in these articles. I have to use easybcd to do that.
Last time I could fix it by copying back the file into the NST directory on the xp partition because win7 deleted it!!! It used to be the other way around Win 7 first then install XP that caused the problem. Thanks for this awesome and useful website. By submitting your email, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
You have just received a new computer with Windows 7 pre-installed on it, but you might still be fond of Vista and want to create a dual boot system. If you have extra drives like media card and optical disc drives, you might want to do a bit of renaming to keep them straight. Type Disk Management into the search box in the Start menu.
Then right-click on the drive you want to change and select Change Drive Letter and Paths. After it finishes, you want to enter the amount of space to shrink the volume by.
Remember that the size you select is in MB so, like in this example. The minimum to go with on a Vista install should be 20GB. When you have the amount of space entered in, click the Shrink button.
Right-click on the Unallocated space select New Simple Volume. That starts up the New Simple Volume Wizard that is a straight forward process.
When you get to the following window the drive letter D will be selected by default if you changed the drive letters in the steps above. Then in the Format Partition screen you can leave the default settings how they are. One thing you might want to change though, is the Volume label. You will also see it listed in My Computer. Now everything looks good to go.
You want to boot from the Vista disc that you have. Most computers will let you choose the boot option by hitting the F8 or F12 key during startup. Each computer varies so you might want to refer to the computer manual or watch the boot screen it usually says which key to press to get the boot option. Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. I know nothing about dual booting and did not consciously install either version that way.
The links you gave me appeared to have nothing to do with this query. So can I use Vista without losing W10? Dual boot is a configuration where you can have two or more operating systems installed on your computer. If you would rather not replace your current version of Windows 10, you can setup a dual boot configuration. All that is required is the creation of a partition or availability of a spare hard disk ready where you can install it. Sorry, but I'm still not clear what you're telling me about the question I asked.
You tell me I can set up a dual boot system, but since I'm already offered W10 and Vista when I start up, does this mean I already have dual booting? How can I tell? This is to inform you that since while booting your computer you can see two Operating system it means that your computer is in dual boot state.
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