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    alot of my games dont work on vista so i wnat 2 dual boot and use gamerxp as one boot and vista as one how do i do it?

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    You would have to partition your hardrive or get another hardrive and put the gamerxp on that one. But i dont know how you can partition a harddrive that already has a os on it.

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    Dude install in another drive, eg D: drive
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    im not sure how vista is structered but a duel boot sould not require two partitons or drives. gamerxp probily has a modifyed install process so it sould be installed first.

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    Dude Insert your Bootable Gamer Xp Cd in CD/DVD Drive and boot from CD/DVD and follow the instruction seen on the black than Blue Screen. When choosing Drive or Partition choose another Driver other than the drive that has windows vista installed. If you install on the same drive as Vista your PC may crash.

    NOTE: Make CD/DVD boot First priority in BIOS.

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    how do i switch which i wnan boot??

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    Vista will overlap Windows Xp boot. Thus, you need to edit boot.ini file. Unfortunately, Boot.ini is not available in Vista. You can edit through Command Prompt. That is quite compex.

    Thus, download VistaBootPRO from

    http://www.vistabootpro.org/

    Using this software you can easily edit BCD in Vista. Good Luck

    By the way do not forget to read the instruction found on that page.

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    so do i install gamerxp then put vistaboot on??

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    Yes. Install Vista Boor Pro in Vista

 

 

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