XP Pro and Vista dual boot?

[snow1868]

Is it possible to partition a hard drive to run XP Pro and also Vista? Or will I need to load each OS onto seperate HD's?

 

[vacunita]

You can load each OS into its own partition. A separate Hd is not necessary. Only suggested.

Install XP first, and then Vista, so vista creates the bootloader upon install.



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[smah]

You should also consider running XP as a Virtual PC inside vista, no dual booting required.

 

[snow1868]

Smash, how do I set that up? I haven't worked with Vista enough to know the ins and outs. Thanks for your advice.

 

[linney]

Some useful links for you.

Virtual PC 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...3199-48a3-afa2-2dc0b40a73b6&displaylang=en&tm

Install more than one operating system (multiboot)

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/8572be9b-8580-49f7-9719-b3a4c42749fe1033.mspx

Dual-Boot XP & Vista

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/co...&p=1&tid=2028a62c-54fb-4b64-b858-507d418c08b7

Installing and reinstalling Windows

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/e77344fa-e978-464c-953e-eba44f0522671033.mspx

This is a handy program to use when Dual Booting Vista with XP.

VistaBootPRO

http://www.vistabootpro.org/

 

[smah]

Linney posted the virtual PC link. Using my Vista system with Virtual PC 2007 running, I can boot this XP & IE6 image in less than 60 seconds and switch between this & vista. This is a stripped down version of XP, a full xp installation takes a little longer to boot, but really not much more than it would if it were a stand-alone operating sytem aka- ½ of a dual boot system.

 

[Leozack]

The problem I had with virtual PC (besides the virtual networking which can get a bit complicated) was the fact you can't use a virtual PC with your real hardware, you have to use the emulated hardware which is comparitively rubbish to today's PCs - aka the graphics card for the virtual pc was some old svga thing. Maybe it's changed as I haven't tried it in a year or 2, or maybe I missed settings to use real hardware with the virtual PC? I'd love to find I could literally just run virtual OS with viortual HD and the rest physical ...

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