Dual boot hi i have a problem regading my laptop. i have windows xp installed on my laptop but unfortunately the LCD doesn't work ( there is no display) no image at all just a black screen only. until i decided to install ubuntu on it and in my suprise there was a display. and then i tried to boot to xp again it the display gone and i try to boot to ubuntu and there was a display. what seems to be the problem of my laptop? particularly the LCD? thanks and god bless!!!

You cannot 'upgrade' Windows Vista to Windows XP - that is technically a 'downgrade' and would need you to save all your user data on Vista then format you Windows drive then do a clean install of Windows XP.

If you try to install XP over the top of Vista you will have lots of problems because of the difference in architecture and boot manager changes.

The only alternative would be to set up a dual-boot installation where you install XP alongside Vista but would be best done on either a separate disk partition or on a second disk. Normally such a dual-boot configuration would start with having XP installed then adding Vista as the second operating system.

Yes you will have to format your drive and remove partitions, then create new partitions and add a boot up option menu. Then when you power on your computer it will ask if you want to boot Windows 7, or Windows XP. You will have to have both copies of Windows also your restore partition can't do this.

Hi,
You need to set it up for dual boot. There are loads of tutorials, but here's one;

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/8057-dual-boot-installation-windows-7-xp.html

Good luck

Zahc

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Go to this WEB site for details on how to setup a Windows 7 and XP dual boot system -
http://www.techspot.com/guides/143-dual-boot-windows7/

Your laptop probably has a SATA hard drive, windows XP only provides with PC's/laptops with a PATA hard drive.

You have to make up your mind what your really want to do.

1) Do you want a dual boot machine, working off XP and Win7?

Here's one web site:-

http://webtrickz.com/how-to-install-windows-xp-over-windows-7-in-a-dual-boot/

2) Do you want to replace Win7 with XP.

Here's a web site which covers that :-

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Install-Windows-XP-On-SATA-Without-a-Floppy-F6-47807.shtml

Hi,
Yes, Windows 7 should run OK on your PC

No it is not if Vista is already loaded. In order for it to work and have a dual-boot, the earlier OS must be loaded first. So, first you must have Windows XP; then you can load Windows Vista; however it does not work the other way around. So if you wanted to have both, you would have to wipe your hard drive clean, load Windows XP, then load Windows Vista....Good Luck.

your harddisk is not detected in bios.reconnect your harddisk power cable and sata or ide cable again.then check in bios harddisk is detect or not.
u cna enter in bios with "del" key when u power up ther computer prerss "del" or F2 keyh to enter in bios.

you could try editing the boot.ini to switch the vista install and xp install.

try this


http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-XP-Fails-to-Start-After-You-Install-Vista-In-Dual-boot-Configuration-47906.shtml

Reboot the sys and go to the bios screen. Change settings back to default and reboot.