Hello, - I have an ACER 5100 notebook that came w/XP. Some months ago, I burned the XP recovery system on 2ea DVDs. Then recently, I wiped the HDD, and did a clean install of Vista Home Premium using upgrade media by following the step-by-step...
Hello, - I have an ACER 5100 notebook that came w/XP. Some months ago, I burned the XP recovery system on 2ea DVDs. Then recently, I wiped the HDD, and did a clean install of Vista Home Premium using upgrade media by following the step-by-step from this site:
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase...rade_clean.asp
I didn't allow Vista access to the Internet for anything but Microsoft Updates and ACER drivers for Vista. Then I made an Image of Vista using Image for DOS and placed it on an external USB HDD.
Ok, then I wiped the drive again and created a new 20G partition using Bootit NG leaving the rest of the 120G drive unallocated. And then reinstalled XP on that partition using the 2 recovery DVDs.
Now, what I'd like to do is place my pristine fully updated Vista image on another partition . I'm reading about MBR etc but have no skills in that area. I found a site that gives a step-by-step on dual booting XP/Vista, but it involves a complete reinstall of Vista and then I'd have to go through getting MS updates and ACER drivers all over again.
Anyone out there done this who might be able to guide me ?
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