How to install Windows Vista

Mon, 03/26/2007 - 12:43 — Ciprian

Some of our site visitors searched for a Windows Vista installation guide. Today we decided to publish an article with references to some of the best installation guides available on the Internet. We managed to find for you a nice list of guides, some of which include interesting scenarios like having a triple boot configuration.

Windows Vista Installation Screencast - a video installation guide published by Long Zheng on his blog. It shows how to make an installation of Windows Vista on a clean system. All the waiting times have been cut from the video and it shows only the important steps of the installation procedure. This is why the video has a duration of only 2 minutes and 53 seconds.

How to Install Windows Vista - this is another video installation guide, published by PC World Magazine. It features additional commentary and information compared to Long Zheng's screencast.

Install Windows Vista in a dual-boot configuration along with Windows XP - if you want to experiment with Windows Vista until you get comfortable with it, then having a dual-boot configuration might be a great idea. This tutorial published by TechRepublic guides you through all the required steps. This way, you can always reboot your system to Windows XP when you are having trouble with Windows Vista.

How to triple-boot Windows XP, Vista, and Ubuntu - if you would like to try out Linux without having to give up Windows, the Lifehacker staff published the perfect guide for you. In this tutorial they show you how to install Windows Vista and Ubuntu Linux on a system that already has Windows XP installed.

Setting Up Vista Ultimate on a RAID Array - the nice people from Legit Reviews published a complete tutorial showing how to set up and install Windows Vista Ultimate on an Intel Core 2 Duo system using RAID 0. If you have a new system with SATA hard drives, reading this guide will prove to be very useful.

Install Windows Vista from a high speed USB 2.0 Flash Drive - if you have a high speed USB 2.0 flash drive you can use it to speed up your Windows Vista installation. Kurt Shintaku (a Microsoft employee) describes how to copy the installation files on your USB 2.0 flash drive and use it for your Windows Vista installs.

Install Windows XP in a Dual Boot with Pre-installed Windows Vista - most of the dual-boot installation guides that can be found on the internet show you how to install Windows Vista on a system that has Windows XP installed. This one shows you what to do if you have Windows Vista pre-installed on your new computer and you want to create a dual boot with Windows XP.

UPDATE:How to dual boot Vista and XP (with Vista installed first) -- the step-by-step guide - this is another good tutorial describing how to create a dual-boot configuration when you already have Windows Vista installed and you want to have Windows XP as well.

Comments

Wed, 07/11/2007 - 10:44 — hassan (not verified)

Hello! When i try to install

Hello!
When i try to install windows XP in windows Vista the message appear that
This Program Is Blocked Due To Compatibility Issues
Please help!

Wed, 07/11/2007 - 13:28 — Ciprian

Follow instructions...

Just follow the instructions found in the last guide referenced in our article.

PS: Don't try to install Windows XP when you are logged in Windows Vista. You need to boot from the Windows XP CD.

Mon, 06/15/2009 - 09:59 — probs_from=hell (not verified)

dual

if u want both i.e xp and vista then u must install xp first and then vista
in two different drives...
so that u can use it
then reboot again 2 run ur os.

Sat, 10/27/2007 - 19:04 — Ngoc Quyen (not verified)

Can not read XP CD in Window vista when my laptop starts boot.

I want to uninstall window vista home basic from my laptop, but when i put the XP SP2 CD to intall, It doesn't auto starting the XP SP2 CD. although my desktop computer reads the xp sp2 cd ok. Who can tell me how to install window xp sp2 on my laptop? The laptop's operating system is Window Vista home basic. My Laptop is HP Compaq . Thanks....

Sat, 10/27/2007 - 21:34 — Ciprian

Uninstall Vista

Check out this article:
http://www.vista4beginners.com/How-to-Uninstall-Windows-Vista

Thu, 08/14/2008 - 10:45 — Mohammed ELony (not verified)

to install xp insteed of Vista

u insert the XP cd& the lab dont read it at the start of ur device
that becuse u didnt make the CD first boot
make it first boot then the lab will inter to the cd & install the XP

Tue, 01/15/2008 - 20:32 — Anonymous (not verified)

i have windows vista on my

i have windows vista on my computer but i want to put xp on it instead, however when i try and run the xp disc it wont let me format the partition where vista is it just says error your version of windows is newer and it wont let me go further.

Sat, 01/26/2008 - 14:01 — tomy (not verified)

help pls :(

i had a hp laptop with windows vista installed when i bought it. it has a recovery partition on it. But i decided to format the c: n install xp...with later i regrad n wan to reinstall vista with my d:recovery partition. but i cant..... can someone really intelligent tell me wat to do?

Mon, 03/10/2008 - 22:41 — Liam (not verified)

Cannot install XP

I've followed the above tutorial, but when i get to the part where i boot from the xp cd, it doesn't show any drives available to install on... not even the Vista Partition shows up.

How do i fix this?

Fri, 05/30/2008 - 07:09 — Anonymous (not verified)

dual boot problem

When i have partitioned and formated the HD drive of preinstalled window vista dell laptop (latitude dell 630) and tried installing window xp on dual boot with preinstalled window vista but after booting window xp CD and window setting up , i don't get any any hard drive with following message:Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer. Make sure any hard disk drives are powered on and properly connected to your computer and that any disk related hardware configuration is correct. Please give me solution.

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