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I bought a new computer with Vista installed on it. I have an old computer
with xp on it. I plan to add the old hard drive with xp to my new computer so I would have both hard drives and both O.S. on one computer. I would like to have a dual boot option between the two systems/hard drives. If this is possible can someone give me some detailed instructions on how to achieve it. Thanks in advance for your help. -- lucky one |
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If XP came preinstalled on your old computer (OEM) then the license does not
permit moving the OS to a new computer, even when you move the whole hard drive and all. If it is a retail copy of XP I suggest that you run XP in a virtual machine on your new computer and avoid the whole issue of dual booting. That way you can run both Vista and XP at the same time instead of having to pick one or the other. "init4luck" <init4luck@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:05E5C95A-EAC8-49D6-A9DA-1C50B3AB2668@microsoft.com... >I bought a new computer with Vista installed on it. I have an old computer > with xp on it. I plan to add the old hard drive with xp to my new > computer > so I would have both hard drives and both O.S. on one computer. I would > like > to have a dual boot option between the two systems/hard drives. If this > is > possible can someone give me some detailed instructions on how to achieve > it. > Thanks in advance for your help. > -- > lucky one |
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