Ok, I gotta admit, I'm a man of constant change. I really need to get my other PC up and running so I'll stop f'ing up the one I have now. Ok, So I been dual booting Vista and XP for a while, but the thing is Vista is just not... perfect (yet...). So I need a better OS to fall back on, and frankly XP Home is crap. It crashes way to much, and has more problems then you can shake a stick at, so today. I deleted the beotch. But then I remembered, I got W2k Pro still. So I decied to Install that on the old XP partition, well that went ok, until I put in W2k. It kept saying My 30gb partition, was Damaged or Unformatted. I was kinda aprehensive about deleting the Partition but I did. Then I "tried" to format it. THEN it starting formating my Vista Partition! I shut my pc off, and luckly. I used the Vista dvd to fix my startup and I got back on Vista (no Problems), but see I really want W2k on that partition. I'm backing up everything right now.

BTW, that is more of a install question.

But I have another question. Once I get W2k running, Do I just install EasyBCD then select my Vista Partition, or Do I have to recover Vista. I don't remember what I did with XP. I think I just installed Easy BCD on XP. But I can't Remember.

Anyone?

With the vista disk in the drive can't you use the recovery console when booting from the disk?

Think thats how I did someones elses.

Yea, but this is my major problem.

You have to install the oldest operating system first. Vista does not use the same bootloader as previous versions of Windows.

However, I have heard in passing that you can install Vista than an older OS, but I am not familir with how to do it.

Well, I'm on 2000 right now. I have Vista on a separate hard drive. I don't know, were the hell I'm going to go from here. Oh well, I'll figure it out.

If you have vi$ta installed and want to install an "earlier" windooze Os also, just make sure to select the correct different parition or hdd for that, install.
Afterwards to OS bot selector needs to be fixed of course, just startup with the vi$ta cd/dvd, choose the language, then choose "computer repair options" or similar, NEXT and wait til its fixed, Then restart and it should work.........

In my experience with Win98, Win2k and WinXP dual boot may be setup only if older Windows is installed first. I have dual boot Wiin98 and Win2k on which I installed Win98 first, selected a new install instead of upgrade and chose install partition for Win2k during Win2k setup. I'd be unable to setup dual boot if I'd installed Win2k first and then tried to install Win98, and I suspect the same would be true of Vista, i.e. Win2k install first and then Vista. However, I'm unfamiliar with Vista, and _chef_ may be right if that's changed in Windows Vista.

XP Pro is what you need. I use vista and all I did was shut down the security part and a few other things and now it runs a little better. More like XP Pro. For me I had problems with xp running with the new hardware. So I did a clean install of vista without all that Sh.T that comes with a new PC. Running alot better without all that Bullsh.. and them nagging do you what this or that windows popping up. Any way Good luck with dual booting

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Well, I pretty much got everything working. The bad part is that I have to change my BIOS, to change the Hard Drive Boot order so the OS the I want will boot up. It's not too bad, I really find it easier then using a boot loader.

I've always had both OSs on different partitions of the same physical drive where the boot loader allows choice of which to boot and never thought about how it'd work on 2 different physical drives, but it makes sense changing boot order in BIOS would be necessary.