Cannot dual boot

Hi fellow ToughBook fans. I really like my CF-74.

Have a CF-72, started with a CF-71 (I think) 10 gig HD, 500mhz PIII or there abouts with next to no RAM..LOL.

Anyway, did a search to find any posts to answer my question but found none. I want to dual, possibly triple boot with Vista, XPpro, and Ubuntu.

It is possible, did it with Win7(beta), XPpro, and Ubuntu on my CF-72.

My problem is with CF-74, I have Vista Buisiness currently installed on 250gig HD, it came with XPpro (downgrade) installed, then 80 gig HD. I have both OS recovery/reinstall DVD's that came with PC, seems that they are quite different from out of the box Microsoft software, like they are an image or something. Anyway, the Vista Biz is on first partition of 120 gigs, I have a regular XPpro disc (not Panasonic recovery disk) and wanted to install on second partition of 60 gigs, after the first few minutes of a normal load, it stops and an error message comes up saying it had to quit to prevent damage to my computer?

With the factory discs, I'm thinking they will not allow me to load both, it's one or the other, anyone know for sure? I believe either one will wipe the whole HD.

If I put Ubuntu in next, won't that prevent a proper load of another windows OS? I always read that windows tends to not treat other OS very nice if they are on another HD partition.

 

Have you considered any of the third-party boot managers, such as Acronis Disk Director?
http://www.acronis.com/promo/Boot-M...ord=bootdisk&gclid=CNjfh9HqiKECFRLxDAodAn-wNw

Or VCOM System Commander 9?
http://www.winferno.com/store/categories/utilities/Featured/VCOM-System-Commander/

Years ago (back in my "experimental" days ) I used System Commander to dual-boot Windows 3.11 and IBM OS/2 Warp.

 

No I haven't, but I may look into it, I don't really like how grub works/does not work when installing Ubuntu.

I think the problem is the XP will not support the hardware on the CF-74, I think I need to slipstream SP2 into it and then install, we'll see.