Hi
Sorry if this topic has been covered before i read through a couple of pages on dual booting and couldnt find anything
I have just brought a new pc, duo core 2 3.16 with 4 gm ram, 500GB Hard Drive, and put my old 160 Gbb in as well.
I Installed windows XP home on it, and then relaised I should put on a 64 bit operating system to take full use of the ram and cpu. Using acronis disk director i shrank my xp partiton down by 50 gb and moved it to make a new vista partition. ( my large HDD has a vista partition of 50 gb, then XP Partition of 50GB, then logical partition). I made the xp partition hidden and set the vista partition active, restarted and installed vista64, worked perfectly and installed drivers. Using my rescuse cd of acronis, i swapped over the partitions and booted into xp, worked perfectly, I installed the boot manager with acronis, which detected both os on seperate drives. problem was would boot xp, but would not boot vista, would come up saying GLDR loading then have a lot of gibberish afterwards (sorry can tell you what is exactly says as not near home computer). but i can change boot into vista is i change active partitons e.tc
Does anybody know any solution, is there a setting in acronis i am missing or dose it not boot 64 bit os?
I know i could install both OS on one partition but, like to have em seperate incase something happens to one ( i have had previous problems with removing one and the boot loader gettin stuffed)
any advise would be greatful
thanks in advance
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