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Vista and Windows XP and Ubuntu!
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Sun Apr 27, 2008 12:08 pmby bedub1
My laptop came with Vista Business 32-bit. So I removed it and installed Vista Business 64-bit so I could use all 4 gigs of ram. I just installed Windows XP and got the laptop to dual boot both vista and xp. It's working great. Anybody else have experience with this?
Re: Vista and Windows XP
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Sun Apr 27, 2008 12:32 pmby Nickbaldwin
Am planning to do this on my new build. It seems a good way to experience the good parts of vista without giving up on non-vista supported hard- and software.
Re: Vista and Windows XP
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Sun Apr 27, 2008 2:42 pmby MeDeFe
I used Killdisk to get rid of mine at one point, does that count?
Re: Vista and Windows XP
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Sun Apr 27, 2008 2:56 pmby AndrewLC
How do you do this? I hate vista.
Re: Vista and Windows XP
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Sun Apr 27, 2008 10:18 pmby bedub1
AndrewLC wrote:How do you do this? I hate vista.
I used this article for assistance...but it was really easy.
http://www.syschat.com/dual-boot-vista- ... -1946.html
Re: Vista and Windows XP
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Sun Apr 27, 2008 10:27 pmby hecter
Ya, doing a dual boot isn't difficult. It's easier if you have two HDD's, but it's not significant enough to worry you...
Re: Vista and Windows XP
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Sun Apr 27, 2008 10:54 pmby InkL0sed
Macs pwn.
Re: Vista and Windows XP
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Sun Apr 27, 2008 11:07 pmby crapgame
I used to be an
anything but vista kind of guy. Then they offered me a job and gave me access to any software they have ever made for free.
I have become one of them.
I am a vistan
Re: Vista and Windows XP
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Sun Apr 27, 2008 11:23 pmby the_lion
InkL0sed wrote:Macs pwn.
Only because they run linux under the hood. All operating systems that are not *nix based suck cheese from hairy goat ass.
Re: Vista and Windows XP
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Sun Apr 27, 2008 11:24 pmby the_lion
crapgame wrote:I used to be an
anything but vista kind of guy. Then they offered me a job and gave me access to any software they have ever made for free.
I have become one of them.
I am a vistan
you also suck cheese from hairy goats ass.
Re: Vista and Windows XP
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Mon Apr 28, 2008 2:47 amby borox0
How much did 4 gigs of ram cost you?
Re: Vista and Windows XP
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Mon Apr 28, 2008 3:33 pmby bedub1
borox0 wrote:How much did 4 gigs of ram cost you?
Absolutely nothing.
Re: Vista and Windows XP
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Tue Apr 29, 2008 6:43 pmby crapgame
you also suck cheese from hairy goats ass
some people just don't assimilate as well as others.
Re: Vista and Windows XP
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Tue Apr 29, 2008 6:45 pmby InkL0sed
the_lion wrote:InkL0sed wrote:Macs pwn.
Only because they run linux under the hood. All operating systems that are not *nix based suck cheese from hairy goat ass.
Agreed. Linux also pwns.
though I'm fairly sure Macs run Unix, not Linux
Re: Vista and Windows XP
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Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:36 pmby bedub1
so who uses Ubuntu Linux and wants to help me triple boot using the Vista Bootloader?
Re: Vista and Windows XP
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Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:44 pmby The Fuzzy Pengui
bedub1 wrote:so who uses Ubuntu Linux and wants to help me triple boot using the Vista Bootloader?
Easiest way to do it is with the Grub Bootloader that comes with Ubuntu.
Really easy to do during the installation and it just takes like 30 seconds to configure
Re: Vista and Windows XP
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Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:45 pmby InkL0sed
bedub1 wrote:so who uses Ubuntu Linux and wants to help me triple boot using the Vista Bootloader?
I use it at school, but I don't know enough, sorry. I guess I get a
but not a
Re: Vista and Windows XP and Ubuntu!
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Wed Apr 30, 2008 12:01 amby bedub1
So I shrank my partition some more, and feed up 7 gigs or so. Installed Ubuntu to the partition. Used the Ubuntu GRUB boot-loader to get into vista. Added Ubuntu to the vista boot loader using EasyBCD to edit the vista bootloader. Overwrote the current bootloader (grub) with the vista one again. Booted to Ubuntu with the install CD, and installed GRUB not to the Main part of the hard drive, but just to the partition where Ubuntu is located. Now the vista bootloader gives me 3 options, Vista, XP, and Ubuntu.