scooterinwi
New Member
Just got my new laptop with Vista Business and I love it! The first thing that I did was put the Vista disk in and completely reformat/reinstall to get the pre-installed junk out of there. I want to have a dual boot system since so many of my development programs do not support Vista yet. I ran across EasyBCD and it sounds like I am set! Since I am a nubee in every sense of the word, I wanted to run this past the gurus prior to turning my shiny new dell into a paperweight! These are the steps that I have figured out on my own:
1.) Shrink my partition down to allow for XP and give it a drive letter.
2.) Boot with the XP cd and install to that new drive.
3.) Start PC. Vista boots?
4.) Run EasyBCD from Vista and add an entry for the new XP drive.
Is this about right? I am wondering what happens once the XP is installed to the second drive. Do I need to run EasyBCD prior to the XP install?
Thanks guys!!!
1.) Shrink my partition down to allow for XP and give it a drive letter.
2.) Boot with the XP cd and install to that new drive.
3.) Start PC. Vista boots?
4.) Run EasyBCD from Vista and add an entry for the new XP drive.
Is this about right? I am wondering what happens once the XP is installed to the second drive. Do I need to run EasyBCD prior to the XP install?
Thanks guys!!!