5728 dual boot vs upgrade

[JR]

The way I read it, I have a choice between:

1) Clean install of 5728, preserving the dual boot with XP, but NO
settings migration from 5600;

2) Upgrade install over 5600, which no longer preserves my current XP
dual boot.

Is this correct? Or is there that "third alternative"?

ie upgrade the vista, keep the xp dual boot.....

JR

 

[John Barnes]

Why do you think that an upgrade install over 5600 would not preserve your
XP boot? A 5728 install over XP would remove the XP.

 

[JR]

Dear John,

Have you actually tried this?

The setup screens say that if you want to do a dual boot you should select
the clean install option.

JR

 

[dotcom]

JR,
I installed 5728 over 5600 on an XP dual boot and it worked fine.
XP was left intact.

Paula

 

[Guest]

Given enough partitions and space, you can have XP, 5600 & 5728 triple-boot.
Colin

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

In both x86 and x64 versions as well.

Given enough partitions and space, you can have XP, 5600 & 5728
triple-boot.
Colin

 

[Rock]

The way I read it, I have a choice between:

1) Clean install of 5728, preserving the dual boot with XP, but NO
settings migration from 5600;

2) Upgrade install over 5600, which no longer preserves my current XP
dual boot.

Is this correct? Or is there that "third alternative"?

ie upgrade the vista, keep the xp dual boot.....

JR

Upgrading 5600 doesn't remove a dual boot or multi-boot. Why would you
think so? And yes I have done it in a multi-boot environment - two XP, two
Vista - one Vista is a clean install of 5728, the other is an upgrade from
5600 which was itself an upgrade from XP Pro.

 

[Dan]

Given enough partitions and space, you can have XP, 5600 & 5728 triple-boot.
Colin

or like me 98SE -- for old school programs -- eg. DOS programs and
Windows 3.1 programs that do not work in XP --- then XP Professional and
finally Vista on a separate partition

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

I no longer boot anything with 98SE. I run 98SE in a virtual machine on
either Virtual Server 2005 R2 or Virtual PC 2004. The problem with Win9x/ME
is the 512MB system memory limitation. Being able to allocate ram to the
guest machines under VPC/VS solves the issues that come up in legacy OS's
when running on a box with 2 GB or 4GB of ram like I do.

 

[Dan]

I no longer boot anything with 98SE. I run 98SE in a virtual machine on
either Virtual Server 2005 R2 or Virtual PC 2004. The problem with Win9x/ME
is the 512MB system memory limitation. Being able to allocate ram to the
guest machines under VPC/VS solves the issues that come up in legacy OS's
when running on a box with 2 GB or 4GB of ram like I do.

I will soon have 2 GB's in this machine and still will run 98SE. You
need to make the proper memory adjustments for 98SE to remain stable.

http://www.aumha.org/win4/a/memmgmt.php

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