Dual Boot Preinstall Vista System with Windows XP

Hello,

I can across a project where I had to setup a Vista preinstall Laptop. The person was having a lot of trouble running some of his programs from work. They had asked me if I can load Windows XP as a dual boot. Well I thought this might be an easy thing to do? So I took the project but come to find out it took me a couple of hours to figure it out.

[1.] One of the first things I did was partition the hard drive which was easy and had no trouble doing this with Vista. The process was very easy! One of the first things you need to do is Click on “start” then go too “Computer” and right click on “computer” you should see a tab for “Mange” Click on this tab.

Once you click on the tab you should be in Computer Management just like the window below.

[2.] In the Computer Management Window right click on the “C” drive if this is the partition drive you wanted to partition? Most likely this is the drive! Once you right click on the “C” drive you should see a tab for Shrink Volume. Click on “Shrink Volume” This is the amount of space you will used to put Windows XP. I will suggest on making the space at least 4GB or more? Depending on how much things you are going to load on Windows XP?

[3.] In the Shrink Window enter the size of the partition you wish to use for Windows XP?

This is just example of what you might see when you are using the Shrink Window. Enter the amount you wanted to used then click on “Shrink” Once you click on Shrink you should see the volume under Computer Management with the amount that you shrink.

[4.] The next step is to configure the unallocated space, so we will right click on the unallocated space and then you will see a tab saying “New Simple Volume”