Use XP boot management to get Vista and XP dual system

        This article is another way to achieve the coexistence of XP and Vista dual systems, which is actually 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 are independent, do not affect each other, each installed in a main In the partition # boot process is, bois--mbr--ntldr-- here choose to boot to XP or Vista, that is to use XP to boot Vista through boot.ini, Vista boot XP is too much trouble, say goodbye to bootmgr . 2, disk tool 1: backup mbr software DOS debug, XP, Vista winhex 13.7 SR7, Linux dd (save mbr has many tools) 3, disk tool 2: partition tool can change the active partition partition software (There are a lot of them). In fact, in the disk management of XP and Vista, you can change the active partition, right click on the primary partition - mark the disk partition as active. 4, the system installation order is arbitrary, first XP after Vista, first Vista after XP can be two, hard disk partition
divided 2 primary partitions, one to install XP, one to install Vista, it is best to put the XP partition in front, because boot In the .ini multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1), the partition order should be recorded. The following description is taken according to the scheme 3. Install the system
a. Install XP and then install Vista 1. Activate the first partition, install XP 2, save mbr as mbr.1 3. Activate the second primary partition, then install Vista 4, save mbr as mbr.2 5. Activate the first partition and 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" b. Install Vista first and then install XP 1. Activate the second partition. , install Vista 2, save mbr as mbr.2 3, activate the first Primary partition, then install XP 4, save mbr as mbr.1 5, boot into XP 6, copy the saved mbr2 to the root directory of XP partition, add a line C:\\MBR.2 in boot.ini ="Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate" Interested friends can compare mbr.1 and mbr.2 4. Cancel 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 use XP, Vista's own partition tool to re-partition. Recommend spfdisk. Attached: Save mbr method run winhex 13.7 SR-7 Press "F9", select "Physical Disk", click to the first partition of the disk, and then click menu: Edit - Copy Sector - Shortcut is "Ctrl+Shift" +N", enter a file name.