Dual Boot Vista/XP/Linux, Step-by-Step with Screenshots!

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Thanks for the info.

You might be better submitting this in the Guides section.

thanks mate.. . . already ctrl+D

great info, but as to your post ynm, guides section is solely for self-authored guides now, so links would be no good, great post though invisiblebond, i will definitely put these guides in my archives (which are enormous)

thanks been looking for something like this

Thanks for this but isnt Dual with 2 OS's this should be titles Tripple Boot .

Thank goodness for this post lol. thanks

But it would be good to put this to the Interesting Links thread in the guide section. Then it will be at least kept to the surface for people to use

cheers mate

thanks bro

how would i do this with 2 hard drives.
i have XP on one and i want Vista on the other.
how would i put vista on the other without causing any info loss on the XP drive.

thats funny! all the picture links say "page not found"

Kinda a side question but does anyone know how to set up
1. Vista primary partition
2. Logical
a. Linux Swap
b. Linux Distro A
c. Linux Distro B
d. XP
e. Windows 7
3. FAT32 storage

My problem is that I would like to boot all options from grub and not have the windows linked together, currently i have everything right except that my grub boots the windows 7 loader and i have to choose the windows version after that, iv messed around with the windows bootloaders a lot and the problem seems to be that once i get one bootloader loaded and configured the other loaders cease to function except when triggered by the windows bootloader of a later version (even if i don't set the other installations up on the new loader). I don't understand the windows loader much but i think it can be written to either the partition "head" (for lack of better word) or the drive MBR, Grub is on the MBR, does that mean that when i install or repair a win bootloader it is writing over the other ones because i have a logical partition or is there more here that i am missing? oh yea if i do try to configure in grub i get dead screens for all but 1 windows install (whichever was last updated/configured/installed)

thanks very much. it so clearly

Thanks for the info