How to install Windows XP under Windows Vista to achieve dual system problems

If you install Windows XP under VISTA, you can use several methods:

Method 1. Modify the system disk boot mode

Install XP directly from the CD to the non-VISTA partition, so only Can enter XP, can not enter VISTA, you can modify the system disk boot mode to achieve boot. Enter XP, download <;bootsect.exe” extract to the XP system partition C: root directory (Bootsect.exe is also included in the Windows PE2.0 package, available for free download on the Microsoft website). Run winx with win+R, enter “c:\\bootsect.exe /nt60 c:” (C: for XP system disk), “Bootcode was successfully updated all targeted volumes.” prompt, restart The boot manager appears.

Method 2, use VISTA CD to repair boot management items Step 1: Boot the system from VISTA CD, select the language, when the installation prompt appears, click “Repair computer” in the lower left corner, PE will automatically repair Failure, restart will appear in the boot manager "Windows vista (fixed) & rdquo;, you can successfully enter VISTA. Step 2: However, this is just to repair the VISTA boot, and can not enter XP, to be in VISTA Add an XP boot entry. Enter VISTA as an administrator, enter the system directory, and right-click CMD as administrator (“c:\\windows\\system32\\cmd.ece”), and enter the following 6 commands in CMD: 1. X:\\ Boot\\bootsect -nt60 all (X is the VISTA CD, use this command to change the system disk boot mode) 2. c:\\windows\\system32\\bcdedit /export "d:\\BCDBack\\BCD" (Backup VISTA boot file, need now D disk to create the above directory) 3, c: \\ windows \\ system32 \\ bcdedit create {ntldr} - d " Windows XP " (add a boot menu named windowsXP) 4, c: \\ windows \\ system32 \\ bcdedit /set {ntldr } device partition=c: 5, c:\\windows\\system32\\bcdedit /set {ntldr} path \ tldr (add ntldr boot) 6. c:\\windows\\system32\\bcdedit /displayorder {ntldr} -addlast Step 3: After rebooting, you can see the boot manager and fix multiple boot.

Method 3, purely add the boot menu If you install XP with GHOST, you can use this method to fix the boot menu. Step 1: Run GHOST in pure DOS and install XP to a blank partition, such as D:, and enter VISTA after reboot. The second step: open the resource manager, copy the bootfonbin, boot.ini, grldr/IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS, NTDETECT.COM, ntldr files in the root directory of the D drive to the root directory of the C drive. Step 3: Manually add the XP boot menu with Easybcd. Run Easybcd, click “ADD/remove Entries”, then click “Windows” under “ADD an entries", select “Windows NT/2K/2K3",drive selection in the "Version" drop-down list “C: (where ntldr is located) & rdquo;, enter the boot menu name at the Name, and then click SAVE to save. Step 4: After the addition is successful, click ““ViewSetting", you can see the following characters, it means that the addition is successful, and the restart can fix the multiple startup. Entry #2 Name: Windows XP BCD ID: {ntldr} Drive: D:\\ Bootloader Path:\ tldr The following describes how to install Windows XP and implement Windows Vista and Windows XP when Windows Vista is already installed. Dual boot

The most important thing to install xp under Vista is booting, because Microsoft's system boot is backward compatible, and upward is not necessarily feasible. The following is an example of installing Vista in the first partition. First, backup the Vista boot file to another folder, for example, in a bak folder (do not put it under the partition where you want to install xp, or else) White backup)

Step 2: Install xp, install xp to a free partition normally. Make sure there is no important data in the partition before installation, or it will be miserable.

The third step, and most importantly, because the second step after the installation is complete, the system starts only with xp boot, and there is no Vista boot, so we have to fix the Vista boot. First copy the boot file of the first backup back to the first partition, insert the Vista installation disk under Windows XP, and then click Start->Run->cmd to enter the command line. In the command prompt, type "X:\\boot\\bootsect /nt60 sys" (without quotes, X is the drive letter of your CD-ROM drive, /nt60 and spaces before sys can not be omitted). Restart after you press Enter. I will find that I can enter Vista but there is no XP selection menu at this time.

One more step to repair the boot menu of xp: enter Vista, enter the command prompt under Vista, enter "bcdedit /default {legacy}" (ibid., without quotes) on the command line, and then back The car, restart will have a selection menu for you to choose to start an earlier version of Windows or Vista, the earlier version of Windows is WinXP. Everything ok!

Method 4, run the Vista optimization master, change the boot menu in the Vista optimization master. C drive already has Windows Vista system, want to install Windows XP in other partitions, such as D drive E drive F drive G drive H drive, etc.... The first step is to start multiple boot under Windows Vista system. Menu, download and run Vista optimization master under Windows Vista system, open Vista optimization master, use the following steps: 1. Click on the left side of the system settings & rdquo; 2, click the following system startup settings & rdquo; 3, click Right side of the "multi-system selection", 4, click on the "Add" & rdquo; 5, click on the add, will come out a dialog box, select the system type is other, the system name where you want to enter the boot menu The text displayed inside, for example: "Windows XP”. 6. The system name of the previous step is set to “Windows XP”. Click OK. The new system just added appears in the window of Vista Optimizer. The next time you boot, this will appear in the boot menu of the computer. Vista Optimizer also has a backup and restore button below, which is used to make backups of the computer boot menu settings. You can select each system in the system list, click “ set as the default startup item & rdquo;, this can be used as the default startup system after the computer is turned on, of course, in the case of no system selection, wait for 30 seconds after the default. The operating system chooses the waiting time, which can be changed in the Vista optimization master. The default is 30 seconds.

The second step is to take out the Windows XP CD, start the computer, and install it with the CD. In the first step, the D drive is selected and installed on the D drive. It is the same as the drive letter of the new system location selected in the first step. After installing Windows XP on the D drive (in this case, the D drive), install the update and driver. You can also set virtual memory and Windows Vista in the same partition.

1. In the Windows XP system, change the folder options, let the system display hidden files and hidden system files, copy the file ntldr of the C drive, copy the root directory of the drive letter of Windows XP, here we Using the D disk as an example, copy the ntldr file (that is, copy it) to the root directory of the D drive. 2. Insert the Windows Vista CD, then open “Run> (Start > Run), type cmd.exe and run to enter the command line program. 3. Enter X: (X stands for the drive letter). 4. Enter cd boot 5. Enter bootsect /nt60 SYS

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