I am using Windows vista on my laptop and I was facing some problems. The biggest problem that I was facing was the disk partition. My hard drive was made to two partition, C drive with 20 GB and D drive with 160 GB. This was a blunder done by the service engineer who installed the OS for me. I was having very less space as Windows Vista takes about 15 GB and when I install any new programs then I need to select Drive D for installation. I tried different tricks to expand my C drive space but nothing worked for me. Other problem that I faced with Vista was some programs were not working properly. So I decided to go for Windows XP and keep the Vista installation intact for the time being.
How to install Windows XP with Windows Vista and configure the dual Booting
Requirements
Windows XP licensed version
Process
- Shut down your system and insert the Windows XP CD to computer
- Make sure that your system first booting is from the CD rom or you can change it by pressing the F10 key while your system boots
- Install the Windows XP
- Try restarting, you may not be able to use Windows Vista
- Just start Windows XP and install Vista Boot Pro
- Copy boot.ini, NTDETECT.COM and ntldr from the drive where Windows Vista is installed and paste it to the drive where you have installed Windows XP.
- Run Vista Boot Pro and go to "System Boot Loader" tab and select Windows Vista Bootloader, then in the second option select All drives and click on the Install Bootloader button
- You are done
Now restart your system, you should find the option to select the operating system
