How to use XP system startup management to solve Vista, XP dual system

How do we get slanted, use XP system startup management to get Vista, XP dual system, now for everyone to find a way to achieve XP, Vista dual system coexistence The reality is very reasonable. Vista Home recommends that you learn from it. Here are the topics directly in this article:

Introduction to Dual Systems

1. Features

This dual system XP, Vista Is independent, does not affect each other, each installed in a primary partition

The boot process is, bois--mbr--ntldr-- here choose to boot to XP or Vista, that is, use XP to boot .ini starts Vista, Vista starts XP is too much trouble, say goodbye to bootmgr.

2, disk tool 1: backup mbr software

dos under the debug, XP, Vista winhex 13.7 SR7, linux under dd (save mbr has many tools)

3, disk tool 2: partition tool

can change the partition software of the active partition (there are many), in fact, in the disk management of XP and Vista can change the active partition, right click on the main partition -- Mark the disk partition as active.

4, system installation order

Any, first XP after Vista, first Vista after XP can be

Second, how hard disk partition

Divide 2 primary partitions, one to install XP, one to install Vista, it is best to put the XP partition in front, because the multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1) in boot.ini Record partition order.

The following description is taken according to the scheme

Third, how to install the system

a. Install XP and then install Vista

Activate the first partition, install XP

2. Save mbr as mbr.1

3. Activate the second primary partition and install Vista

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