Vista and XP

[technicks]

Hi there.

I have a problem. Since my experience with the gaming side of Vista is not to good i dicided
to make room for a Vista/XP setup on my disc.
I allready have 2 partitions. One for Vista and the other for data.
So i reduced the data with 20 gb for XP. Formatted and completed the 3rd partition.

So i put in my XP disc to install XP. The first time i tried it in Vista. I click on the disc icon and the windows install screen pops up but the option to install XP is missing. It's grayed out.

So i'm like wtf. So i try to boot up and install this way. The wierd thing is if i try to boot from my dvd player it doesn't pick up the disc. Normaly you would get ''press any key to boot from disc''. But nothing. Tried setting bios to boot from dvd first, but no change.

So..... Help.

 

[kwchang007]

do you have a way to manual choose a boot up device ex. hit f11 to bring up boot menu? that's how i have to do with my dell...maybe it's a bad bios they have, but try that.

 

[technicks]

I have to press f8 for it and i tried booting up like that but no luck.

 

[kwchang007]

I have to press f8 for it and i tried booting up like that but no luck.

was it that the bios didn't see the dvd, or didn't see the drive? more than likly it saw no dvd?

 

[technicks]

It just won't boot up XP. The drives are working fine.

 

[mullered07]

It just won't boot up XP. The drives are working fine.

maybe the discs a bit worn just make a copy of it see if that helps.

 

[kwchang007]

It just won't boot up XP. The drives are working fine.

hmmm umm vista hates xp? lol i don't want to say you have to wipe the drive and like install xp then vista, cause that might not work either. bios is fully updated right?

 

[technicks]

I just tried to make a iso file with poweriso. Also won't show the install XP option.

http://img.techpowerup.org/070412/Capture017.jpg

 

[mullered07]

hmmm umm vista hates xp? lol i don't want to say you have to wipe the drive and like install xp then vista, cause that might not work either. bios is fully updated right?

has nothing to do with that, if he set his dvd to boot first it would prompt him to run off the cd before it even gets to vistas bootscreen, but its not prompting him to boot off the cd. ie: doesnt see the cd or cant read it

 

[mullered07]

I just tried to make a iso file with poweriso. Also won't show the install XP option.

http://img.techpowerup.org/070412/Capture017.jpg

dont think you can run it from vista anyway ie: you cant install 98 whilst in Xp etc although you should get a message saying somthing like you cannot install an older copy of windows blah blah but it should be picking it up from your bios, failing that you could always download another copy and just use your own key (be sure to check your key will work first)

 

[technicks]

hmmm umm vista hates xp? lol i don't want to say you have to wipe the drive and like install xp then vista, cause that might not work either. bios is fully updated right?

Yes i updated the bios last week to latest version.

I am used to Vista now. And i it would be a bitch to return to XP.
But i just want to use it for gaming.

 

[kwchang007]

Yes i updated the bios last week to latest version.

I am used to Vista now. And i it would be a bitch to return to XP.
But i just want to use it for gaming.

oh god, vista to xp would be horrible, took me a day to learn vista, going back, another day? time me to eat, i'll think about it with food

 

[technicks]

Fuel for the brain.

 

[kwchang007]

Fuel for the brain.

lol, here let me pop in a xp cd (i just thought of this) and see if it blacks out the install xp option for me.

it's blacked out.

 

[Juntao]

hi

you need to install xp first. then add your dual boot to vista on another partition or drive. if you install xp last it changes the ini and it wont work but you can recover it.

 

[Wile E]

My mobo has 2 drive controllers built in. Stock ATI and a JMicron. If I have my DVD on the JMicron controller, selecting CD-ROM as my boot device doesn't work. I have to select the actual name of my CD/DVD Drive. IE: Pioneer DVR-110D in my bios. Try scrolling further down in your boot order menu.

As for installing XP after Vista, it can be done. Download a program called VistaBootPro and install it. Use it to make a back-up of your bootloader and save it on your storage partition. Install XP, then install VistaBootPro on your XP. Use it to restore the bootloader, and then use it to modify the bootloader to see the XP install. Works like a charm.