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Triple boot vista xp ubuntu

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My partition table is pretty messed up from install/uninstall os and what I want to do now is to clear that and have vista/xp/ubuntu 12.04 on the same hard drive. I have create a new partition for xp on vista, everything was fine, but when I restarted my pc, I was getting the grub restore prompt. Even when I was trying to install xp, when the 'lunch windows' came, a wild BSOD appear. So I have deleted my partition for xp using gParted include in the 12.04 live cd. This haven't resolve the problem and I am still unable to boot in vista nor ubuntu. But I realy what this triple boot for LoL purpose (since my vista installation keep giving latency spike in this game and I hope this will not be the case in a fresh xp installation (I have tested it in ubuntu, the ping was good, but the fps wasn't).

So what I want to do, is to install xp on a partition, then be able to boot on any of them without a problem from a nice installation of grub or something.

[Edit]

So, I have XP on /dev/sda1, Vista on /dev/sda2 and Ubuntu on /dev/sda3, how do I configure grub2 for all those os? Here the result of fdisk.

Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77825 cylinders, total 1250263728 sectors

Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk identifier: 0xd5d9d5d9



   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System

/dev/sda1              63    41929649    20964793+   7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

/dev/sda2   *    41945088   558931885   258493399    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

/dev/sda3       558931968   646098943    43583488   83  Linux

/dev/sda4       646100992  1250260991   302080000    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

Thanks for help.

Sorry for my English.

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answered 3 Years ago donurp · Accepted Answer

I used the Windows Vista recovery cd and use the command prompt to type :

bootrec.exe /fixmbr

bootrec.exe /fixboot

This allowed me to boot Vista. Then I downloaded EasyBCD for setting up my bootloader for XP.

From then, I was able to boot XP or Vista.

Next step was to reinstall grub2 on the partition where Ubuntu was installed (I don't know if this was necessary, but I did it before testing if EasyBCD was able to add the bootloader for Ubuntu) by using Super Grub2 disk to boot on it. Then, I used EasyBCD to add Ubuntu.

Now, everything work fine, except for my ping in LoL... (it still doing those lags spikes in XP, so it must be my wireless antenna or something) Strangely, playing LoL using wine on ubuntu was giving me a stable ping on the same computer with the same hardware.

Anyways, thanks for the help.