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    Dual boot Vista and XP XPS m1530

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by corujo712, Mar 13, 2008.

  1. corujo712

    corujo712 Notebook Evangelist

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    I was researching dual booting vista and xp and realised there were many problems with drivers and audio for xp support. Finally i came across some useful sites and the audio problem has been fixed.

    These are the links to the drivers for WinXP (Download both and they should extract into the same folder):

    http://rs22.rapidshare.com/files/90765897/XPS_m1530_Xp_drivers.part1.rar

    http://rs339tl2.rapidshare.com/files/90766504/XPS_m1530_Xp_drivers.part2.rar

    I will have a try dual booting tomorrow and see how it goes.

    Link to the dell forums:

    http://www.dellcommunity.com/suppor...S_Laptop&message.id=5318&query.id=92231#M5318
     
    corujo712, Mar 13, 2008
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    Vkhalsa Notebook Guru

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    Thanks, i've been looking for some of this info
     
    Vkhalsa, Mar 13, 2008
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    SmoothTofu Inspiron 1420 Owner

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    Whoops, ignore this post
     
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  4. corujo712

    corujo712 Notebook Evangelist

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    Let me know if the drivers work....... Don't want to wipe my laptop if it doesn't work
     
    corujo712, Mar 13, 2008
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    How'd it go? you guys get your wireless working on XP? (I couldn't)
     
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    doing it now...
     
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    xp can be finicky to set up wireless just screw with it a bit under start-my network places and eventually you'll get it. My old laptop says its not connected but still works fine. Its kind of weird. It's not set up as wireless but still gets wireless.
     
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    corujo712 Notebook Evangelist

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    wireless was fine when i installed with the drivers above. Unfortunately, i stuffed it up somehow and can't boot in vista. Trying again
     
    corujo712, Mar 13, 2008
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    DRTH_STi can't.stop.buying.laptops

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    man I hate rapishare
     
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    alright, i tried again and still no luck on putting vista and xp on different partitions.

    Is this what the partitions are meant to look like before you go into the bios and change from AHCI to ATA?

    [​IMG]

    When i go an install XP it only shows up with the free space in my vista partition. I reserved 80gb for XP but doesn't show up when installing XP. Any ideas?
     
    corujo712, Mar 14, 2008
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