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Windows Vista opening Vista on an Acer Travellmate Dual loaded with XP opened?

Discussion in 'Legacy Windows' started by demon, 2009/10/30.

  1. 2009/10/30
    demon

    demon Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Hi, I have an Acer Travelmate 6592 laptop with Vista Business and XP Pro loaded from new , it has been set up to use XP , can I switch to/open Vista so I can load Windows 7 without a full re install.
    Thanks Des.
     
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  2. 2009/10/31
    PeteC

    PeteC SuperGeek Staff

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    You need a boot manager - I suggest EasyBCD which I currently use on 2 dual boot systems (XP Pro/Win 7 Pro x64 and Vista Business/Win 7 RC1)
     
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  4. 2009/11/01
    demon

    demon Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Thanks Pete, do I just download that and then run it, or is there something else I should know?
    Thanks for reply .Des.
     
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  5. 2009/11/01
    PeteC

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    It sounds like you cannot boot to Vista - i.e. there is no boot menu to choose which OS when you boot up?

    Is this the Acer which was the subject of a long thread some time ago re. installing XP - Vista was preloaded?

    If you can't boot to Vista I would load EasyBCD to the XP partition and see if it picks up the Vista install.

    Are Vista and XP on separate partitions? If so there should not be a problem booting from the Win 7 DVD and electing to format the Vista partition and install there. Then Install EasyBCD on the Win 7 partition and set it up there.
     
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  6. 2009/11/02
    demon

    demon Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Hi Pete .I have run "SIW" ,it does not show any partitions , but there is about 8 gig of the "C" drive used , which I can seem to find out what for. it is a dual core, they say they are released with Vista Business and XP preloaded and apparently you can open which ever one you prefer first up, but I thought I would be able to find it inside but not as yet, so I will get Easy BCD downloaded and see what I can find,
    Thanks again . Des.
     
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