Forced dual boot

[Canyonaro]

I know that the normal way to go about dual boot is to install the oldest OS
first, but I just discovered (after a year) some old programs which won't run
on my Vista 64 setup. I'd like to run these old programs but at the cost of
uninstalling /reinstalling Vista it's not worth it.

I have quite a bit of space, so making a new boot partition for ocasional
boots - without the uninstall just choose which disk volum to boot from -
seems ideal. Anyone forsee any problems with this?

 

[John Barnes]

It sounds like you are talking about 1 drive and 2 partitions. This would
be a problem.
If you are talking about 2 partitions on 2 drives, install your second OS
with the first drive temporarily disconnected.

 

[Mick Murphy]

http://apcmag.com/how_to_dual_boot_vista_and_xp_with_vista_installed_first__the_stepbystep_guide.htm

Have a read of the above link.
A better way for you might be to set up a Virtual Machine..

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Run them in a Virtual Machine, no dual-booting is necessary. Download and
install Virtual PC for free, then create an environment with the older OS
and install programs there.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...02-3199-48A3-AFA2-2DC0B40A73B6&displaylang=en

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

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