Dual Booting Problem?

[*PewPew*]

I recently created a partion and im ready to dual boot
so i turn off my laptop
turn it on go into the bios menu
change the boot setting to CD/DVD

it beggins to boot from the xp cd which i am going to install on my new partion

Then what comes up is


[ Windows Error Recovery ]
1.insert your windows installation disk and restart ur comp
2.choose ur language settings
3.click repair computer

and then it gives me alll the boot options

safe mode etc

- Pew

[*PewPew*]

Bump

[PurestLight]

Ran across this tutorial recently. I havent tried it yet but it's worth a read:

How to Dual Boot Vista and XP (with Vista installed first)

[*PewPew*]

Hey Purest Thank for commenting, i have repeated over 30 times, its just my laptop boots up from vista dvd Perfectly exept not my xp cd, maybe i should borrow a windows xp dvd from my friend?

[Dodge]

Hi, you could go to www.bootdisk.com and download the win/xp bootup files and create you a Bootdisk. See if this will help get you going.

[*PewPew*]

Thanks Dodge altho i dont have any idea what to do
and i was reading threw the tutorial on the site
it sais i need a floppy disk, my laptop doesent have a floppy drive

[Dodge]

Nah, look at the second option on the page that says "Windows XP Fresh Install Bootdisk And Bootable CD" You can use this tut to create a bootable cd.

[*PewPew*]

Do i need to download all of them :S

[Dodge]

Forget that site. I hadn't been there in awhile. They charge for the files etc now. Let me see if I can find a different site to get what you need.

[*PewPew*]

Thanks Dodge

[Dodge]

I can't find a decent one creating the bootdisk on cd...

Do you by anychance have a USB flash drive? If so look at this page. http://articles.techrepublic.com.com...1-5928902.html Tells you how to create a bootable usb drive.

I will keep looking for something good on the cd though. (But, you could follow the instruction on http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ to redo you copy of Xp to make sure it is bootable)

[*PewPew*]

something always has to happen to me LOL, thanks for the link to boot from your usb flash drive its great theres one small little tinny problem it has to be 2GB or less , and i have a 4GB hahaa.

"The reason for this is because you will have to format the flash drive using the FAT-16 file system, which has a 2 GB limit. Presently, you are stuck using FAT-16 because most computers will not recognize a flash drive as being bootable if the drive is formatted with anything other than FAT-16."

thats what it sais -.- dam..