Windows 10: Dual boot Win10 and XP screw up

Discus and support Dual boot Win10 and XP screw up in Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade to solve the problem; I have a play system with Win10 installed and wanted to put XP on it as well and be able to dual boot. Of course I've done it the wrong way round and... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade' started by Sam Vimes, Feb 6, 2019.

  1. Sam Vimes Win User

    Dual boot Win10 and XP screw up


    I have a play system with Win10 installed and wanted to put XP on it as well and be able to dual boot. Of course I've done it the wrong way round and wonder if there's anyway to recover from my screw up without reloading WIn10, which is not a big deal anyway, just time consuming.

    Having Win10 installed already I shrank the Win10 partition (CDual boot Win10 and XP screw up :) and made a new one (DDual boot Win10 and XP screw up :) and installed XP into this. Now the machine boots directly to XP, when I'd really like to be able to choose which one to use.

    Any help would be much appreciated.

    Thanks

    :)
     
    Sam Vimes, Feb 6, 2019
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  2. bobrcnut Win User

    Replace dual boot XP/Win8.1 with dual boot XP/Win10?

    From what I've seen here, it will not be possible to set up a new dual boot system with Windows 10 in one partition, but what about replacing Win8.1 with Windows 10 on a system that is ALREADY dual boot? In other words, can I boot into the existing Win8.1
    system, then do the Win10 upgrade to that partition without affecting the XP partition?
     
    bobrcnut, Feb 6, 2019
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  3. dcf-joe Win User
    dual boot xp and ubuntu

    I had that problem a few months ago, but dual-booting is really easy. I am currently dual-booting Vista and Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron. Use this website here for a guide to dual-booting XP and Ubuntu: APC's February 2019 issue is out now! | TechRadar (I actually did not use this guide at all, but I did pretty much the same thing!)

    If you are unable to get your boot working with this guide, reply to this message, and I will write out a step-by-step guide, but it will involve you already having a partition set out for XP (as in you are not already using your entire hard drive space for XP alone.) Even though I write the guide with experience from Vista, it will work with XP
     
    dcf-joe, Feb 6, 2019
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  4. Dual boot Win10 and XP screw up

    windows xp installation and dual core am

    could someone please list the steps they follow to install windows with a dual core processor and windows xp service pack to. I'm reletively new to amd dual core and i feel i'm missing a step. All help will be appreciated. thanx
     
    exodusprime1337, Feb 6, 2019
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