Dual booting Vista and XP

[eemwbh]

I have a pavilion DV9913cl that came with Vista home 64 and the software I need for school will on run on it I’ve tried running XP in a virtual box but still had problems with the software  I even tried doing a dual boot with the hard drive that has Vista on it but didn’t work. I want to know if picking up a second hard drive and installing it on the second drive bay letting XP format it and install on it and not letting Vista format it will that work?

[CorMit]

Hello eemwbh,

Either way WILL work IF done Correctly ...

LOOK HERE  to view the correct way to dual boot XP and Vista ..

Copy and Paste this link if the one posted above does not work ...

[ http://forums.techguy.org/windows-vista-7/648066-dual-boot-vista-xp.html ]

[CherylG]

Since you most likley don't have a Vista dvd for repairing startup as described in the article..Use VistaBootPro to restore dual-boot after XP Install.Look at the last section on this page "Create a Vista Dual Boot Menu":

HERE

VistaBootPro unfortunately isn't free anymore,but very reasonable HERE

OR free EasyBCD HERE

Message Edited by CherylG on 01-23-2009 08:45 PM

[CorMit]

Thanks Cheryl, I just skimmed through that artical and didn't realize that it was using a vista disk .. thanks for mentioning those programs   haha

[CherylG]

No problem.

[eemwbh]

Thanks for the info everyone but after doing some looking around this board I’ve gone another way and just wiped Vista from the hard drive and installed XP. I’ve got almost everything working but the Web cam and the sound at this point . I’ve tried the audio driver download from Jonah's guide but the Conextant Audio Drivers down load page errors out on me on both my home pc and laptop and the one the one for a DV9000 does not work for both the sound and webcam any help would be great.

[CherylG]

Try another dl of Conexant,with same procedure posted on Jonah's guide:

http://cid-3f10d7c1771f7efe.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Public

Unzip to a folder...use Device Manager.

From Device Manager,right click "Audio Device on High Def Bus",choose Update driver,

No to connect,

Install from a list or specific location,

Select Don't Search, I will choose the driver to install,

For the Hardware Type select 'Show All Devices'

Remove the check from "Show Compatible Hardware" and click on "Have Disk".

Next...browse to the unzipped folder and choose the "WiSVHe5.inf".

Ignore XP when it complains.

Reboot.