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Posted by 48PW on Friday, October 10, 2008 at 21:07:52 :
In Reply to: Re: OT - computer problems anybody use dual boot posted by Joe Cimoch on Friday, October 10, 2008 at 20:24:51 :
Joe,
I currently have Vista installed. Looking to dual boot XP so that I can have access to some old programs that will absolutely not run under Vista.
I used Vista shrink to partition the hard drive. The active partition (Vista)(C:) is 200 GB and the other primary partition (non-active)(E:)is 100 GB.
The problem comes when I try to load XP, it doesn't see the partition sizes as Vista does, It sees only one partition (C:) of 132 GB and the rest unallocated (no drive letter assigned) and it doesn't recognize Vista on the active partition at all.
This wouldn't be a problem if it would recognize the (E:) partition as I could simply tell XP to install itself there and then go back and repair the MBR with Vista, which would then recognize the XP partition.
I seem to remember XP prior to SP2 having a 132 GB limit on partitions and maybe that is where the problem lies.
The hardware is recent, Intel 8400 with 4GB of RAM and a 300 GB Sata 3 drive with 16 MB of cache.
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