I have an HP M9000t. 500gb hard, 2.66 ghz dual core, 4 gb of ram.
My issue is this. I do not have a vista cd for installation. I have a recovery disk because the computer was pre-loaded with Vista. I need to create a dual boot with XP. I shrink the volume, create a new label for it, all the steps. I get into the blue setup screen. I get to start the installation, copying the setup files. Once that is completed, the computer restarted and then the error message of "error loading operating system" comes up. How do I fix this so I can finish the xp installation so that may continue to setup the dual boot! PLEASE HELP!! I have spent literally the past 18 hours trying to fix this. So far the only way to fix it is reformat and recovery back to vista and start over. But the same problem keeps arising. Help me.
Never mind! I got it to work! After i got through to the setup screen for the xp section even though I had vista installed, I went back into the setup screen and instead of go with the install option I hit R for repair. In there I choose the drive I just tried to install xp. I typed fixmbr and then I did fixboot. I then restarted, and it then booted in xp, finished the installation where I then used vista bootloader pro and now have vista/xp dual boot! So you def. do not have to have xp installed first and then have vista. It doesn't matter which order. Thank you.
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1 Ahmed Farouk // Jun 16, 2008
Sorry But you can't install XP without removing Vista first you have to start your OS with the old version then the new
so you need to format you HD and install XP then install vista and sorry again you can't use your recovery in this case
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