Your participation helps us to help others. By visiting this site, users agree to our disclaimer. The members, admins, and authors of this website respect your privacy. All logos and trademarks in this site are property of their respective owner. A friendly name for the boot entry. The friendly name represents the boot entry in the boot menu. The friendly name is surrounded by quotation marks and represents the boot entry in the boot menu. Boot entry parameters , also known as boot parameters or load options enable, disable, and configure operating system features.
You can have zero or more boot parameters on each boot entry. For a list of boot parameters that are relevant to driver testing and debugging, see Boot. You can have multiple boot entries for the same operating system, each with a different set of boot parameters. Windows creates a standard boot entry when you install the operating system, and you can create additional, customized entries for an operating system by editing Boot. In addition, both Windows XP and Windows Vista will be installed on the same hard drive, eliminating the need to install Windows Vista to a second hard drive.
It's even better with the PortableApps. GParted will ask you to confirm the changes, click OK and wait for the process to finish Once the partition has been resized, remove the GParted CD and shutdown your Computer Insert and boot from your Windows Vista DVD, select your language and then select the option to Install now Next, continue until Windows Vista prompts you on where to install. Select the Unallocated space option and click Next Now simply follow any onscreen instructions to complete your Windows Vista installation.
After the installation of Vista is complete, the Vista boot manager will allow you to start Windows XP or Vista as is seen in the screenshot below:. This post is for people who are having trouble seeing XP partition in Vista after Vista is installed. Time Spent: 9. Vista uses its own Boot management thus making boot. Vista Expired and i had to format the 2nd HD. But the entire OS was there. I reinstalled Vista on the same HD that I did 1 year ago.
Everything went fine up until the part when I booted in Vista and was unable to see the XP partition. Even the 1st partition on the same HD as XP was showing.
Problem: 1. Click "Install Now". You will be asked for a product key. Type diskpart and then list disk. Type select disk 0 to select the disk, and clean to delete any existing partitions on it. Keep in mind that when you create a partition in diskpart, you must enter its size in megabytes.
To calculate the size of the Vista partition that you need to enter in the following step, take the size in gigabytes and multiply by A calculator will definitely help Verify that the steps worked by typing list partition. Now, we must make the XP partition active. Type select partition 2 , and then type active to make it active.
Type exit to exit diskpart. Insert the XP CD and boot from it. When prompted to select the location to which to install Windows, choose "C: Partition2". Format the partition as NTFS.
Proceed with Windows XP setup as you normally would. Once XP has been installed, you can tweak it to your liking Before we can actually install Vista, there is an important thing we must do, viz. If this is not done, then Vista will install its boot files onto the partition on which you have just installed XP. Although both XP and Vista will work, you will not be able to remove or format the XP partition in the future without repairing Vista.
Boot from the Vista DVD. Click "Next" and click "Install Now". Don't enter your product key. Click Next click No if asked whether to continue without a valid key. On the next screen, select the exact version of Windows Vista that you have a product key for. If you select the wrong one, you will have to reinstall Vista all over again in order to be able to use your purchased product key; you WILL be required to enter your product key when activating Windows.
Now that you have Vista installed and working, you may have noticed that there is no way to get into XP. Thankfully, getting XP into the boot menu is not particularly difficult.
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