Two Operating systems

[Ivor]

I bought a new computer which has Vista home Premium, But son can't use some
of has games on Vista as the DVD disk will not load. So as I have an
external 80Gb USB drive I thought I would put Windows XP on it as a 2nd O/S
.. XP installs ok on the USB drive until the restart at this point the
computer will only restart to Windows Vista, And will not continue
instilling XP. Is this because i'm putting XP on a USB Drive, does the 2nd
hardrive have to installed in the computer? Any advice / help would be
welcome.

 

[Thorsten Hesse]

@1st. Sorry for my english!!!

I've read that you must first install xp an then Vista. Vista will then find
the xp and add it in the bootmanager. I don't think, that you can install xp
after Vista.

Thorsten
Hamburg, Germany

 

[Ross M. Greenberg]

I'm dual booting with Windows XP on my C drive, Windows Vista on my F drive.
There's been some peculiarities, mostly having to do with drivers for a
given device not being available under Vista (notably dragon naturally
speaking professional not being available for Vista, forcing me to use the
inferior Vista speech recognition) but generally speaking have had no
problems.

Ross

 

[Dave R.]

I bought a new computer which has Vista home Premium, But son can't use
some of has games on Vista as the DVD disk will not load. So as I have
an external 80Gb USB drive I thought I would put Windows XP on it as a
2nd O/S . XP installs ok on the USB drive until the restart at this
point the computer will only restart to Windows Vista, And will not
continue instilling XP. Is this because i'm putting XP on a USB Drive,
does the 2nd hardrive have to installed in the computer? Any advice /
help would be welcome.

Because of the way Windows handles the USB stack, you can't boot Windows
to a USB drive.

Regards,

Dave

 

[Thorsten Hesse]

Does your Bios support Boot from USB Device?

 

[Dave B.]

It doesn't matter, you can't run XP off of an external drive (sata not
included).

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[Guest]

As others have pointed out, you can't boot VIA USB to Windows XP

You've got two possable solutions avalable
1) Given that you've got a new computer, I'd bet that it's all SATA
Drives,Buy a Second SATA Drive, Install it on another SATA Channel,
Disconnect your Current Drive (The One that has VISTA) so you've only got 1
SATA Drive hooked up. Install XP Normally now, after you've got it all
installed & all you're patches installed, you can re-connect your VISTA SATA
Drive. Now comes the cool part (Depending on your BIOS) Press Select Boot
Device (EXC key for my HP Pavilion) When you power up, and you can boot from
either SATA Drive, and the second drive will act like just a data drive.

2) Another solution you can do is Get Virtual PC 2007, install that on the
VISTA Box (It will work on Home Premium, it's just not offically supported),
and create a Virtual XP Box (That can run full screen), you can also crate a
Win98 Box for even older games or a DOS box if you've got any games that old.

 

[Ivorh]

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Ivorh
Suffolk,
United Kingdom

As others have pointed out, you can't boot VIA USB to Windows XP

You've got two possable solutions avalable
1) Given that you've got a new computer, I'd bet that it's all SATA
Drives,Buy a Second SATA Drive, Install it on another SATA Channel,
Disconnect your Current Drive (The One that has VISTA) so you've only got
1
SATA Drive hooked up. Install XP Normally now, after you've got it all
installed & all you're patches installed, you can re-connect your VISTA
SATA
Drive. Now comes the cool part (Depending on your BIOS) Press Select
Boot
Device (EXC key for my HP Pavilion) When you power up, and you can boot
from
either SATA Drive, and the second drive will act like just a data drive.

We bought a new 160gb Sata drive to install XP on, did as advised but
couldn't load xp. xp needs a driver installed on the drive because XP Won't
load on a sata drive. got the file from the Samsung site but it has to be
loaded by floppy disk, Problem........ the system has no floppy
drive.................!


Ivorh
Suffolk, United Kingdom