Creating a dual-boot vista and others operating system

June 23, 2008

Creating a dual-boot vista and others operating system

The creation of a dual-boot system with Vista is almost the same as with any other operating system.

First, make sure you have a free partition on your hard drive or a second hard drive available. If you can not use a program like Partition Magic to split the current partition into two or backup all your files, erase your hard drive and start fresh.

Next, place your Vista DVD into your DVD-ROM drive and reboot your computer.

Thirdly, you want to set your system BIOS so that its DVD-ROM drive is the first boot device. This requires that you press a designated key (or set of keys) during startup. To find the combination of keys on your computer, click here. Chang boot order so that DVD-ROM is the first hard drive and is second, after the departure of saving.

When the computer is restarted, should be taken to press any key to boot from DVD … doing so. That will lead to the installation of Windows Vista, which will guide you through the installation process. When asked where to install Vista, either choose a new partition that has been created or create a new partition outside the unallocated space.

Once you’ve finished installing it allowed the creation of Vista for the first time. Since then every time you start your computer will see a screen that prompts you want to boot to Vista or an earlier version of Windows … this is the new boot Windows and a sign of a successful dual boot configuration.

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