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Old 01-24-07   #1 (permalink)
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Has anyone had any problems installing and doing a dual boot setup with vista? Im thinking about doing this, but just want to make sure that its going to be for the most part trouble free. The only true way to find out is to do it, but its allways nice to know ahead of time. Thanks guys!
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Has anyone had any problems installing and doing a dual boot setup with vista? Im thinking about doing this, but just want to make sure that its going to be for the most part trouble free. The only true way to find out is to do it, but its allways nice to know ahead of time. Thanks guys!
No problems yet. When booting it asks to boot to Microsoft Vista or 'An Earlier Version of Microsoft'.

Works nicely with Ultimate. Haven't tried other versions.
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sweet, thanks thats exactly what I needed to know!
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No problems yet. When booting it asks to boot to Microsoft Vista or 'An Earlier Version of Microsoft'.

Works nicely with Ultimate. Haven't tried other versions.
Are you using the final release? When I try to install Vista on my 2nd hard drive, the bootloader is not installed, and I keep getting 'NTLDR not found' whenever I try to boot Vista.
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Are you using the final release? When I try to install Vista on my 2nd hard drive, the bootloader is not installed, and I keep getting 'NTLDR not found' whenever I try to boot Vista.
I have it on a different partition on my primary hdd. The partition must be a primary and not logical in order to work.

I am using the final RTM. So far so good.
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is the final rtm free? if so linky plz if i gotta sign up NP
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is the final rtm free? if so linky plz if i gotta sign up NP
It was free a while ago. Not sure if it is anymore, im guessing not since Vista has already been released.
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Yeah I didn't have problems with dual booting but I will be putting up a rant in this section you might want to look for it about what happened

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I have it on a different partition on my primary hdd. The partition must be a primary and not logical in order to work.

I am using the final RTM. So far so good.
Not true......I created a second partition on my primary HDD with Partition Magic 8 that is logical. I installed Vista Home Premiere with no complications. I also have no problem dual booting as well. Also have only had minor compatibility issues with some software. Love it so far. I also installed several older games to see, no problems yet.
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I dual-boot between Vista and XP (it was done automatically when I installed Vista - same hard drive, different partition), and I used to tri-boot between Ubuntu, XP, and Vista using GRUB. (installation order: XP, Ubuntu, Vista)
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