Re: Install XP Pro after Vista for Dual Boot

If you change the boot priority in the BIOS to have the IDE drive as the
system drive for the install, you will not affect anything on your Vista
boot process. Either way you are going to have to add the legacy system to
your Vista boot process either with VistaBootPro, or the repair startup of
the Vista install process.
Not sure what would happen otherwise, as XP has to write the boot files on
the system drive.


"FrOsTbYtE" <FrOsTbYtE@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have a PC with a SATA Raid Primary Partition running Windows Vista just
> fine. However, I need to use the Nortel Contivity VPN Client and neither
> Microsoft not Nortel have a Vista compatible version publicly available.
>
> So, I was wondering if I could install Windows XP Pro on a second IDE Hard
> Drive and configure Vista to dual boot? I have found many instructions on
> how
> to install Vista on a PC with XP already on it. However, nobody appears to
> have tried to install XP on a PC with Vista already on it. Has anybody
> tried
> this? Are there any special precautions?
>
> Fortunately, the spare IDE drive is the only one XP would see without
> loading the NVRAID Drivers during Setup. So I think it would be safe. Any
> suggestions would be welcome.