Use XP boot management to get Vista, XP dual system

Sword slant, use XP boot management to get Vista, XP dual system

This article is another way to achieve XP, Vista dual system coexistence, in fact It is very reasonable. Vista home suggests that you can learn from it, the following directly into the topic of this article:

First, the implementation of the dual system

1, features

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

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

2, disk tool 1: backup mbr software

under dos 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, 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 is to be recorded. Partition order.

The following description is taken according to the scheme

Third, the installation system

a. First install XP and then install Vista

1. Activate the first One partition, install XP

2. Save mbr as mbr.1

3. Activate the second primary partition, then install Vista

4. Save mbr For mbr.2

5, activate the first partition, boot into XP

6, copy the saved mbr2 to the root directory of the XP partition, add a line in the boot.ini

C:\\MBR.2="Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate "

b. Install Vista first and then install XP

1. Activate the second partition and install it. Vista

2. Save mbr as mbr.2

3. Activate the first primary partition, then install XP

4. Save mbr as mbr.1< Br>

5, boot into XP

6. Copy the saved mbr2 to the root directory of the XP partition and add a line to the boot.ini

C:\\MBR.2="Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate "

Interested friends can compare mbr.1 and mbr.2

4. Cancel the dual system

a. To cancel the XP system, activate the second primary partition, and then process the first primary Partition

b. To cancel the Vista system, delete the boot menu, and then process the second partition

Note: If you use pq partition, XP boot.ini boot Vista may have problems, please Repartition with XP, Vista's own partitioning tool. Recommend spfdisk.

Attachment: How to save mbr

Run winhex 13.7 SR-7

Press "F9", select "physical disk", point to disk first Partition, then click on the menu: Edit - Copy Sector - the shortcut key is "Ctrl+Shift+N" that entry, you can enter a file name.