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    Vista Boot pro question....

    Discussion in 'HP' started by grabber_grabbs, Jan 1, 2008.

  1. grabber_grabbs

    grabber_grabbs Notebook Guru

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    OK i have a DV9612ca (9500 series) and would like to have both operating system installed. Ive been told to use Vista Boot pro, so i did install it on my primairy drive (the one with vista). I then installed the WinXP onto my second hard drive (My laptop has 2 hard drives).

    Now the problem i dont understand is that when loading vista boot pro, it doesnt seems to recognize the WinXP on the second hard drive at all..... Could this be because the WinXP has been installed onto a different physical Hard drive instead of being installed onto an other partition of the drive where Vista Boot pro is installed (in this case the Vista drive)?

    I have also read that lots of peoples are having hard time to install XP on laptop using SATA hard drive.... I was surprise to be able to install mine without any problem, directly from the original XP cd...

    Thanks guys for your help and happy new year
     
    grabber_grabbs, Jan 1, 2008
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  2. emedici

    emedici Notebook Consultant

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    All you need is right here, Have fun reading!!!! Happy new year for you too..
     
    emedici, Jan 1, 2008
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