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Dual booting XP with Vista, Vista Installed first. I want to dual boot windows vista and windows xp. I installed windows vista first a few days ago and got everything set up. All the product updates, a few programs installed and all the drivers I needed.

I found this guide a while back to dual boot windows vista with windows xp on apc. Basically this is what it says to do: (it assumes vista is already installed on a partition that takes up 1. Shrink the Vista partition down to make room for XPInstall windows xp like normal. Boot off of windows vista install DVD to fix vista MBRInstall and run Easy. BCD once back in vista to add XP to the vista boot manager. This is what I tried doing: I partitioned off my 3. GB HDD into two 1.

GB partitions (base 1. Installed Vista on the first 1. GB partition which was C: Then I tried install windows XPPut the XP install disk in my computer (one that I know works, I've used it a lot before)Setup copied install files on D: and then rebooted. Upon restarting the computer gives me a disk read error press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart which the guide said might happen and then to just use the Vista DVD to fix the MBR (Repair installation) and then use Easy.

BCD to add the XP entry into the Vista boot loader. So thats exactly what I did.

However when I reboot the machine I get no vista boot loader of any kind, it simply just restarts in windows vista and thats that. Every time I try and reinstall XP it does the same thing over and over I tried 3 times with no luck. When I go back into vista and check Easy.

BCD this is what it gives me under . I didn't change anything in the settings of Easy. BCD except add the XP entry to the Vista boot loader (which is D: but it shows as C: in the view settings thing?)So basically I'm not getting any vista boot loader to come up at all, even after doing essentially exactly what I should do to make this work.

Every time I try and put XP on it corrupts the boot sector and gives me a disk read error and repairing the vista boot loader and adding XP to it doesn't give me any kind of access to any boot loader at all.