vista and xp dual boot

I had a problem with my XP/Vista dual boot too. Mine was re. a paritio
on a SATA drive. But I don't think that's all that relevant. What'
actually important is that what eventually worked for me was a solutio
that was VERY hard to find on the net, and was something that Microsof
could easily have resolved by mentioning it on the same page as thei
ridiculously vague 'criteria' message. That is, as I eventually (afte
many hours over the course of a few days) learnt, that I had to set m
2nd partition as an 'active' partition before Vista would install.
did this using Acronis Disk Director, where after XP was installed,
flicked the 'active' partition over to the empty partition where Vist
was to be installed. There can only be one active partition on a har
drive, and I felt it a bit of a risk to flick it over as I didn;t kno
for sure it would work and I might end up with a laptop that wouldn'
boot up at all. But it worked PERFECTLY after that. Whether this is th
solution for you, I can't tell. But I will say that only ONE postin
out of maybe a total of a hundred or so that I must have read on th
internet ever mentioned this 'Active' requirement to me. And s it di
work for me, i'm doing my bit back to the community and letting other
know that this is at least one other potential solution. Good luck an
I hope anyone who reads this gets there in the end

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