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14. Click Boot Management and then select Boot Manager in the Express Launcher.

15. Set up the Boot Manager wizard. The most relevant option here is the possibility to hide other primary

partitions except the one selected to boot and it is by all means should be activated to make Windows

Vista and Windows XP unaware of each other. The rest of the parameters offered by default will do in

our case, so just complete the wizard and it will automatically find the two operating systems and

update the MBR.

16. Now restart the computer to make sure you have got a dual boot system.

WINDOWS XP + WINDOWS VISTA

If you’ve got Windows XP and are willing to try the latest Windows Vista but not sure your favorite applications

will flawlessly work on it, the best way out is to leave the time-proved Windows XP intact and install Windows

Vista for studying purposes.

As this very situation is very close to the previous one, please use the

Windows Vista + Windows XP scenario.

However please take into consideration one more step you need to accomplish if you decide to use the

traditional scenario:

1. Besides hiding of the system partition before installation of the second OS you need to make it inactive

as well. To do that, please call the context menu for it (right click of the mouse button) and launch the

corresponding dialog. Click the Yes button to continue;