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Old November 13th, 2008, 01:04 PM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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I have an HP Pavilion dv8000 with a 200G HD. The HD is a pancaked double 100g drive. I have XP on the C drive. Can I load Vista on the D drive and have a choice at start up? 100G is plenty for me and what I do.
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I've never heard the term "pancaked, " but if the D drive is currently empty, then it should work fine. Vista will automatically create a boot menu to choose which OS to use.
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just remember NOT to boot vista from the dvd.. run the setup from xp.
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I have Vista along with Fedora on my other computer on a 100 gb hard drive... no problems Vista did make the boot menu automatically


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