How to enable Windows XP and Vista

If you think that installing a Windows operating system is not enough, or you feel that the troubles in your life are not enough, install Windows XP and Windows Vista at the same time.
If you think that installing a Windows operating system is not enough, or you feel that the troubles in your life are not enough, install Windows XP and Windows Vista at the same time.

Why not? Frankly speaking, I don't know why someone wants to do this. As mentioned in the previous blog, Windows Vista's dominance of MBR (Master Boot Record) excludes the processor. Once Vista is installed on your computer, you must follow the rules set by Vista to operate your computer.

Hard Disk partitioning

In fact, dual operating systems are not difficult to implement. To install Vista on a Windows XP operating system, you only need to have enough space for the hard drive to support Vista installation or another hard drive partition to install Vista.

If there is only one physical driver, you must partition Vista on the disk. However, if your XP system has only one partition, it is necessary to re-partition the partition. However, the XP system does not have such a partition tool. However, if you have a partition tool like acronis, it will be much easier. If you do not want to buy such a partition tool, we have other methods.

Windows Vista allows you to partition again, but this function is not available when installed by default. However, if you have windows PE 2.0 on hand, the partition problem can be solved.

Enter PEProgramOpen the Dispart program under the X: windowssystem32 directory. This program is in Vista, so you can use the shrink option. First select the appropriate volume label (usually the volume is 0), and then input shrink (compression ). Because the program runs through the Disk Manager of Vista GUI, it is not a setup process. Shrink only looks at and adjusts the space it can operate on. Install an NTFS partition of XP and 20 GB. After compression, the partition size can be reduced to 10 Gb, which can meet the installation requirements of Vista to the minimum. Running the disk fragment program in a partition may be of great help to the compression process.

If you do not have windows pe2.0, there is also a very powerful tool-gparted (gnome partition Editor, gnome partition editor ). This is a graphic interface partition Tool Based on Linux. It can re-adjust the NTFS file partition size.

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Obtain the downloadable livecd, burn it as an ISO image, and use it to start the computer. When running, all the default settings are accepted, and the computer will work well unless the user is using VMware. In this case, you can manually mount the graphics module and select Vesa. Otherwise, the screen will display a black screen. Right-click the partition icon, select "re-partition/move", drag the partition button, select the required partition size, select "OK", and apply the selected settings. In this way, hard disk partitions are ready. Restart your computer and choose to install the Vista system in the new partition.

Start Management

After Vista is installed, the system runs the Windows startup management program, from which you can select "Microsoft Windows Vista (Microsoft Windows Vista)" or "earlier version of Windows (earlier windows ).

It is a little annoying, and unfortunately, in Vista, it cannot be modified as easily as in windows. You can still enable "enable info options" in System Properties (right-click "my computer"> "properties"> "advanced"> "enable and recover"> "Settings ), here, you can select an operating system as the default startup system and select the no-time interval option. To change all the startup items, you must use the new bcdedit tool in the command prompt. However, this tool is not so easy to use. Although the tool features are comprehensive and powerful, it is difficult to use.

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At this moment, we came to the rescue site with easybcd from neosmart. It provides a graphical interface for bcdedit, so that the operation is very simple. There are many options in the program. These options depend on your needs. Now, you only need to select "Startup Settings", change the name of the Windows installer to "Windows XP", and click "Save settings ". After the system is restarted, the user will see that the modified information has been saved to the startup Item Management Program.

In the "Add/Remove Portal" option, you can choose to move the current portal program up or down, or add a new portal program. In theory, you can start XP, Vista, Linux, and OSX in a vista environment. However, unless the user has a lot of courage or the user is a technical expert, we do not recommend that the user do this.

If you are sure that dual-boot is not suitable for you and want to resume the XP operation, you also need to use Vista MBR. Fortunately, easybcdy can also help. In "manage startup items", select "Uninstall Vista startup items" and click "Write MBR ". After the computer is restarted, the Vista startup Item disappears-so that the system can directly access Windows XP. In an XP environment, the Vista system Shard is changed to the second partition-D partition, which can be erased safely.