Moving XP to a partition on a Vista HDD

>I have a small hard drive with XP installed and a new larger drive with
>Vista
> installed. Both are bootable on their own when set as the first drive.
> Both
> were installed in this PC. The XP however goes through a "phantom" Vista
> boot
> menu - that older Vista is no longer there and XP is in the only
> partition.
> Now, I would like to move XP to a partition at the end of the larger
> drive,
> and I need to be able to boot to it too - preferably from Vista's boot
> menu,
> but other methods, like using a CD/floppy when needing XP would be ok too.
> I
> just don't want it to cause any trouble when installing Vista's SP1 or
> something. I would rarely need XP.
> I should probably manage creating the partition and cloning to it, but how
> can I make XP bootable then without harming Vista? Is there way adding XP
> to
> Vista's boot menu?
> Also, is there a partition cloning software that can copy to a smaller
> partition (the larger is half empty)?
>
> Thanks in advance for any of your thoughts!

> "I would rarely need XP.
> This line in your question makes me think that you should stay with the 2 OS
> on seperate HD and use the BIOS to chose which HD/OS to boot into.
> Its the easiest to setup....its the easiest to undo..............
> peter
> "woot" <woot@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:CBEFD134-E5E6-4414-8F94-45F3B18D7E61@microsoft.com...

> >I have a small hard drive with XP installed and a new larger drive with
> >Vista
> > installed. Both are bootable on their own when set as the first drive.
> > Both
> > were installed in this PC. The XP however goes through a "phantom" Vista
> > boot
> > menu - that older Vista is no longer there and XP is in the only
> > partition.
> > Now, I would like to move XP to a partition at the end of the larger
> > drive,
> > and I need to be able to boot to it too - preferably from Vista's boot
> > menu,
> > but other methods, like using a CD/floppy when needing XP would be ok too.
> > I
> > just don't want it to cause any trouble when installing Vista's SP1 or
> > something. I would rarely need XP.
> > I should probably manage creating the partition and cloning to it, but how
> > can I make XP bootable then without harming Vista? Is there way adding XP
> > to
> > Vista's boot menu?
> > Also, is there a partition cloning software that can copy to a smaller
> > partition (the larger is half empty)?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any of your thoughts!

>
>
>

> yeah, but the old drive stated getting bad sectors...
>
> "peter" wrote:
>

>> "I would rarely need XP.
>> This line in your question makes me think that you should stay with the 2
>> OS
>> on seperate HD and use the BIOS to chose which HD/OS to boot into.
>> Its the easiest to setup....its the easiest to undo..............
>> peter
>> "woot" <woot@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:CBEFD134-E5E6-4414-8F94-45F3B18D7E61@microsoft.com...

>> >I have a small hard drive with XP installed and a new larger drive with
>> >Vista
>> > installed. Both are bootable on their own when set as the first drive.
>> > Both
>> > were installed in this PC. The XP however goes through a "phantom"
>> > Vista
>> > boot
>> > menu - that older Vista is no longer there and XP is in the only
>> > partition.
>> > Now, I would like to move XP to a partition at the end of the larger
>> > drive,
>> > and I need to be able to boot to it too - preferably from Vista's boot
>> > menu,
>> > but other methods, like using a CD/floppy when needing XP would be ok
>> > too.
>> > I
>> > just don't want it to cause any trouble when installing Vista's SP1 or
>> > something. I would rarely need XP.
>> > I should probably manage creating the partition and cloning to it, but
>> > how
>> > can I make XP bootable then without harming Vista? Is there way adding
>> > XP
>> > to
>> > Vista's boot menu?
>> > Also, is there a partition cloning software that can copy to a smaller
>> > partition (the larger is half empty)?
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance for any of your thoughts!

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