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vistaker

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  1. Well, I did it !! It was a bit scary - here's why... I had loaded this xp ghost into D: (nothing happened). One reason it hadn't worked was that XP couldn't see the sata hard disk, a quick trip to the BIOS sorted that out (setting it to ata instead). Anyway there was no way XP was going to work without me putting in the disk and doing a repair (I actually ended up doing a complete reinstall). I didn't want to do this because I DIDN'T HAVE THE VISTA DVD. Not to worry - I could use "easyBCD". So here I am in Windows XP (running really fast on this new machine). I install EasyBCD, run it and get an error "Oh NO!" Have I lost Vista forever? No, I forgot, EasyBCD needs Microsoft .Net framework2, ok install that - No, can't do that without Windows Installer3 - No, can't install that without Microsoft Genuine Advantage update (so make sure your XP is genuine!). So, run XP - go to windows update - install genuine advantage, install installer3, install .net framework Run EasyBCD again, Yes! ...stay calm. Hit the repair vista boot button and add Windows XP to the bootloader. reboot... ... ... choose Vista from the bootloader, yup, that's ok. reboot and try XP, yup that's ok. And it's still really fast - and stable - and my old software and hardware works again. And I can access all my documents in the Vista partition so I don't need a third partition. I can run VirtualPC again (with 98, 95 3.1 and DOS! - (Yeah I know... Why?)). And best of all (?) I still have Vista, so when I want to do unimportant stuff, that I don't need to do anyway, I can still marvel in awe at it's beautiful see-through windows and play with it's amazing gadgets and be informed about loads of confirmation boxes. And best of all have EVERYTHING try to access the internet. (Why did defrag.exe just try to access the internet? and my print spooler?).
  2. Thanks N1K, I was hoping I could cheat at this - Basicallly I've copied a ghost of a nice clean working xp partition to D:\ and used EasyBCD to try and boot to it. I got a ntdetect error. Can't make out what's wrong Any ideas?
  3. Can i do this if i don't have a vista dvd it was all pre-installed
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