Xp and vista dual system installation backup and recovery method

One. Retain c-disk vista and one-click restore function, install xp on other disks

1. Download two softwares online: 1). Microsoft.NET 2.0 Framework or above, click to download Microsoft.NET 2.0 Framework: 2).VistaBootPRO3.1 or above (preferably version 3.2) Click to download VistaBootPRO 3.3:

2. Install xp system to D/E/F/G with xp installation disk Any hard disk partition without data.

3. Upon completion, you will find that the system directly enters the xp system. At this point, Windows.NET 2.0 Framework is installed, and then VistaBootPRO3.2 is installed. (The 3.2 and 3.1 interfaces are different. )

4. Run as administrator (mouse to vistabootpro icon, right click, select), enter the password. (Of course, if your computer cannot run as an administrator for some reason, double click Open is also possible.) After opening the vistabootpro software, prompt backup (English), click OK. Enter "BCD Registry Backup/Restore Center". This interface is very important, because The operation we finished later will rewrite the menu when the system is started. Finally, we should save the settings here, and it will be useful to restore the dual system later. **BCD backup path above allows you to choose an address to save bcd data. On the right, Browse, select a non-system hard disk partition to save the file. The file name can be written casually. ** Remember this location. Because you will need to use the following BCD Restore Path point open after reinstalling the system, then find the above Save the file, double-click to open bcd data recovery. Automatically complete the dual system selection menu at startup.

5. Note file tools diagonstics help There is a row of rectangular menu below the top menu, just now we In the fourth project "backup/restore center". The first one is viewsettings, click on the viewsettings, you will see the startup information of all operating systems. See if there are several. If only xp, then Click the second "manage OS Entries", the bottom "add new OS entry"check. os name write vista, type: vista, OS Drive select v Ista actually installed partition. After the completion of the bottom corner of the Apply Updates. May be prompted for errors, do not care, will be determined in the end. The pop-up record window is closed. Then you can also choose to modify the name of the operating system under this menu For example, change "early windows operating system" to xp (Note: This does not seem to support Chinese). Select set as default to indicate the default operating system when booting. Current boot timeout can adjust the operating system automatically before entering Waiting time. The latter two can also be modified in the vista operating system. Finally, don't forget to click 'apply update"

6 The second last menu: systembootloader is the most critical step. Choose windows vista bootloader And system partition can be. Point to the bottom of the install bootloader. Restart should be able to see the dual system selection menu. (If it still does not work, you can add another step mentioned in the operation of the forum: " into the root directory of the C drive , open the view of the folder option, remove the hidden operating system file, and remove Select Show hidden files and folders. At this point you can see the ntldr file, open the properties of the ntldr file, and remove its read-only attribute. ")

7. Back to xp, reopen vistabootpro, the middle part of **...** mentioned in step 4. After reinstalling the dual system, use bcd restore path directly.

8. Install the driver. Lenovo's please go to the official website to download; (click to enter the driver download page) after entering the host number, download all xp drivers. Then manually install it manually. The method is in each Folder (Lenovo downloads compressed files, you must extract them to each folder) Double-click setup.exe If prompted to restart, select No, wait until all installations are completed and restart.

9 When some vista is installed Installed software such as easycapture, powergo, etc. in the software gift package CD. Install it.

Second install xp and then install vista

1. Use the xp installation disk to install xp to c drive. If the c drive has already installed xp, it will be unnecessary.

2. Enter xp, put the vista installation disk into the CD-ROM drive, and then open the CD-ROM directory, select Setup.exe, double click to start the installation. First you will be prompted to enter the key. In the note Look for the bottom of this. If you are using a pirated CD or you know where the key is, just pull it. Then follow the prompts to choose to reinstall (do not choose to upgrade the installation) in any partition other than the c drive (requires ntfs format. You can format the partition into ntfs format first in xp management. Note: Just use the same hardware installation method as installing ordinary software. Please do not try dos inside or win PE or CD boot system method Install vista, because after this installation is complete, vista will automatically change the drive letter to C drive, so the drive letter of the xp system is inconsistent.)

3. The computer will automatically restart several times during the installation process. After the completion of the startup screen, there will automatically be a dual system selection menu

4. Install the driver after installation; vista manually installed to the non-c disk partition, there are 4 question marks on the device manager. 3 can be solved by putting the random driver CD into the CD-ROM drive and searching for the disk where the CD-ROM is located. Vista has a significant improvement over xp, which means that you can search for the driver. Select the drive letter where the file is located, and then select the subfolder. This means that your driver files are just as easy to put on the CD or hard disk. There is still an unknown device left. After groping, as with xp, Install the power management software. Just, install the xp driver folder and select f50pm. vista selects the engergycut folder. After opening the setup, there is no question mark. However, there are still several steps to be done: a. Although vista There are sound and video functions installed, you still need to manually install the setup file in the 2.audio folder. After rebooting, you can see that the taskbar has a red little speaker. It can manage speakers, mic, remix. There is also sound effect. Note: After installing this sound card driver management file, you can't use the mix.xp while singing in the chat room. This is a common problem with many new notebooks that bought realtek HD sound card, many people online. Wrestling. The technical department of Lenovo and Asus will tell you that this problem is purely a hardware problem and cannot be solved by upgrading the driver or third-party software. I upgrade The latest (April 26th) realtek HD vista driver is really useless. If you must use the mix in vista, only one driver can be used, realtek HD driver version 1.42 -- This discovery almost took me 10 hours to try. b Install the easy capture in the package, then restart, the camera can be used. The easybutton driver I also reloaded. This is successful. After that, every time xp reloads, it may cause the vista option to be lost or winload.exe lost when starting up. So, you still have to install vistabootpro software in xp like the above "one" Ok. Unless you know how to use the command bcdedit.exe to modify the startup information. This is what I understand this morning. I will elaborate on it later.