Looking for a windows dual booting guide

[ctpenguin]

Anyone know of a very good guide about dual booting Windows XP and Vista? I looked on Google and found a bunch of old ones that don't make any sense. So I was wondering if anyone maybe used one that was understandable or in general knows how and can tell me. Thanks.

[Mr. Matt]

I can't imagine why you'd actually want to do such a thing. Aside from the fact that you void your Vista warranty in the process thanks to oppressive old Microsoft's lovely tendency to stomp all over their customers, but you've actually got Tux and the Ubuntu logo in your avatar which says to me that you've already seen the light anyway!

But, here's what I could find at any rate:

How to dual-boot Vista with XP - step-by-step guide with screenshots | APC Magazine
Team Tutorials » Dual Boot Windows Vista and XP

Now, I can't say as to the accuracy or relevancy of the links, as I've never tried such a procedure nor have I any notion to do so. But at a glance they seem fairly up-to-date and make some amount of sense, so see what you can do with them.

[ctpenguin]

Thanks for the input, I'll try it out. lol, I don't want Vista at all, but I need to play Crysis, so I was just going to use Vista for that and XP for other general things. Ubuntu for the main OS.

[Bs|Archaon]

You can play Crysis on XP. Unless you've got a very powerful system you won't be able to use the extra features that running it on Vista provides anyway.

[N88TR]

Originally Posted by Bs|Archaon

You can play Crysis on XP. Unless you've got a very powerful system you won't be able to use the extra features that running it on Vista provides anyway.

Agreed.

Also, say you run maxed settings on XP vs Vista, Vista is gonna slow you down at least in the single digits of performance, it just isn't ready for serious gaming yet. And, the differences between DX9 and DX10 are very small, like better cloud shadows in DX10, hardly any substantial differences, not at all worth the FPS hit that Vista causes.

[Rookie]

So...you want to install Vista, just so you can have slightly improved water animation and 'more realistic' clouds in a single game?

That certainly wouldn't warrant an entirely new OS install to me.

[Vince]

Yeah he didn't ask for your opinion, he asked for a dual booting guide. Don't tell him off for that.

[Revenge]

If everyone got what they asked for here, half of them would end up blowing up their machines. It's good when people talk others out of stupid things, since it happens a lot here.

[Vince]

Really? Surely he would of named the thread, Dual booting advice.