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My R61 comes with a Vista Home Edition. Guess I should write a step by step guide for myself for future reference.

First, I upgrade to Vista Ultimate edition. I probably will do a fresh install of it just to get all the useless Lenovo software out of my system. Currently, I just unistall them manually.

Follow this step is necessary if you don't have extra partition, otherwise you can skip to the next section.

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Section 1: partition your hard drive

DISKPART, a disk partition that comes with your vista.

Run DISKPART on command prompt, type
list disk
The primary disk for my hard drive is Disk 0, so type in:
select disk 0

Now we want a list of volumes on this disk, type in:
list volume

select the volume you want to partition, my case is volume 1,
select volume 1

Now type in:
shrink

now DiskPart will shrink your disk and squeeze out some free space for u.

After the operation is completed, type
EXIT

Next, go to Disk Management and format the new partition.
(Right click on your computer, Manage, under Storage-->disk Management)

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Section 2: change your BIOS setting

First goto the BIOS by pressing the ThinkVantage button, or simplily just press F1 at boot up, to get into BIOS Setup Utility. Choose Config then Serial ATA (SATA). Choose Compatibility instead of AHCI (AHCI is the defualt setting). This will let you install xp. In AHCI mode, if you put in the xp disc, if will load the xp installer but it will complain about disk not found error. (Hard learn lesson and after extend research to find out).

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Section 3: Install your xp

This step is straight forward and just follow the on screen instructions. The only thing you want to pay attention is which partition you want to install your XP. Somehow windows xp will see your new partition as C drive as well. Just be careful not to wipe out ur vista drive.

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Section 4: Go find your driver

It's pain in the a$$. Tons of shxt to download from Lenovo site.
My R61 model is 7742 CTO. Here is the link for my laptop drivers.

After you download the drivers, it will unzipped to C:\Drivers
here is the list of folders under my C:\Drivers:

• OSFIXES (install this before the HDAMODEM and ModemOM)


• HDAMODEM -- Soft Data Fax Modem


• ModemOM -- FaxModem adapter


• TPBTooth -- Bluetooth


• W2K-->EZEJECT


• WIN

Under WIN, there's where most of the important stuffs are located.

• Audio


• DISPLAY -- nVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M / Quadro FX 570M


• ETHERNET -- Intel PRO/1000 LAN adapter


• HOTKEY -- Hotkey utility


• HPPROTECT -- ThinkVantage Active Protection System
  Airbag-like protection for your hard drive: activation software


• IBMPM -- Power Manager


• IMSM --Intel Matrix Storage Manager


• INTELLINF -- Intel Chipset


• KEYCUSTM -- Keyboard Customizer


• MONITOR -- LCD driver


• SCREADER -- SmartCard reader


• TPM -- Trusted Platform Module (Atmel TPM) This one is the one I couldn't figure out that I have it.


• Turbodis -- winxp doesn't support Turbo Memory, so disable it to elimiate the ! sign


• UNVA -- Mouse/TrackPoint


• UNVAUTIL UltraNav Utility


• WLLANATH2 -- ThinkPad 802.11a/b/g/n, 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Mini PCI Express Adapter

Obviously you wnat to download the LAN and wireless LAN from somewhere else. Either run the setup or go to Device Manager to install the driver. Hope you can figure out how to do it.

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Setp 5: Restoring Vista and enable Dual Boot

Now, you want to pop the vista disc back in the dvd rom and reboot.
Choose Install Now, then select Repair your computer.
Pick the drive where the vista is installed, then select Startup Repair. It should fix it for you.

After you get back into Vista, you can go ahead and download EasyBCD or anyway u can add an entry to the bootloader.

For EasyBCD, go to Add/Remove Entries, under "Add an Entry", select Windows NT/2k/XP2k3 for the veriosn, change the drive to E:\ and Name your partition. Then Add Entry and Save.

Reboot and you should see 2 entries in the Vista bootloader.




Section 6: Renable Intel Turbo Memory

Now if you go into the Device Manager in Vista, you will see the Intel Turbo Memory is disabled. What you need to do is go back to BIOS and change the setting back to AHCI in Section 2.

Woot!!! DONE!!


Reference:
apc: How to dual boot Vista and XP (with vista installed first)