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Dual Booting Windows XP Pro and Vista Home Premium 64x

Jul 4, 2007 3:50PM PDT

Ok, XP Pro install was smooth. I took my hard drive, 80GB, and cut it in half so I have 40GB for XP and 40GB for Vista.

I partitioned it clearly correctly, I boot from Vista DVD, it installs, and when I go to boot Vista - It comes up with BSOD.

It says the whole 9 yards about problem being detected, shutting down Windows, check the make sure bios, blah blah blah.

Technical Information:
STOP: 0x00000007E (0xFFFFFFFFC0000005, OxFFFFF8000985E251, 0xFFFFF98000A05B98, OxFFFFF9000AO5570)

Now, Ive tried booting from the DVD again but the same BSOD comes up.
????

I have an ASUS Striker Extreme with Intel Dual Core, 4GB RAM, and 2 Nvidia 8800 GTX SLI.

Do I have to install the bios/motherboard drivers for vista before installing it on the partition?

Ive tried doing this over 3 times, going into XP and erasing the Partition; then doing the entire process. Now, when I boot up (I'm sure it's a common fix in Vista in the Boot.ini) I have like 3 Vista boot options. lol

Anyone know how I can get past this BSOD?

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And.....
Jul 4, 2007 4:10PM PDT

If your wondering, I have my latest BIOS installed - everything is up to date.

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Hello?
Jul 5, 2007 1:34PM PDT

Anyone? I'm really stuck.

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Another hard drive?
Jul 6, 2007 8:51AM PDT

I don't understand why you want a dual boot system, but that's your call.

If it were me and I had a spare hard drive laying around, I would certainly consider hooking it up as the sole hard drive in the system and the installing Vista. If it installs correctly and runs without any problems, then certainly your hardware is NOT the problem.

I think I read somewhere that to run a dual boot Vista system, Vista has to be installed first, but I can't swear that is correct.

Good luck

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Yeah
Jul 6, 2007 6:33PM PDT

Yeah, I read a tutorial about XP being installed first.

Now that I think of it - why install Vista with XP if I have to reinstall everything on that too.

And if I can't get it to partition on the same hardrive as XP, then I might as well not bother.

Question though, Vista's boot manager is still there. As in, choose between Vista or Earlier Version of Windows. How do I get rid of it?

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To remove the boot manager...
Jul 7, 2007 1:20PM PDT

Just follow the instructions at this link to remove it and restore control to Windows XP's NTLDR.

Hope this helps,
John

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stop 7e
Jul 6, 2007 6:31PM PDT

interesting reading http://support.microsoft.com/kb/330182/

note that 40GB is the absolute minimum vista partition size
and they stopped making 80GB hardrives when steve jobs still had hair.

i am puzzled that you have coupled a tiny harddrive with twin mega graphics cards which no doubt consume considerable resources from your miserable partition and probably cause the stop 7e

you are a wealthy man, go forth and purchase a 300GB sata drive for $50 and put vista on that and use the whole of the 80GB drive for XP like the other poster suggested. you can change the boot order in the BIOS.

are you sure you don't mean 800 GB?