Can I have a dual boot 64bit and 32 bit os

[T5]

Can I have a dual boot 64bit and 32 bit os?

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi T5,

Yes, why? You will need two licenses for Vista to do it though.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Musicrab]

Can I have a dual boot 64bit and 32 bit os?

Yes, eg built RAID0 with 32-bit XP SP2 using NVIDIA 32-bit RAID drivers;
then added 64-bit Vista in a separate partition. Appears to work ok.

 

[Frankly, my dear]

Can I have a dual boot 64bit and 32 bit os?

As long as you have 64-bit hardware, yes.
64-bit HW will run 32-bit Vista very nicely thanks.

 

[T5]

I mean having win vista x 64bit as my main os on C partition and xp pro on a
seperate partition?

the reason being... my TV tuner card doesn't work under vista 64bit so I
cant use media centre... there are no 64bit drivers for Black Gold TV tuner
card

Is this possible?

 

[Michael Jennings]

Yes, it is possible. For screen shots of the process, see this:
http://www.pro-networks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=88231
For installing VistaBootPro in XP: http://www.vistabootpro.org/

Something you will need to take care of about what XP sees:
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/dualboot.html

 

[T5]

Hi Michael,

I followed everything on here to the letter and when I inserted the xp media
centre disk it loaded the files and then restarted then just froze and a lot
of the blurb on the boot screen turned funny colours and just hung up on me.
I thought that I had lost everything but a quick repair from the vista x 64
disk got me back into my desktop

 

[Michael Jennings]

What I would do would be to try installing MCE on a blanked hard drive,
with the Vista drive disconnected, to see if installation went the same way.
If it did, I'd probably give up on MCE. If it didn't, I'd be able to plug the
Vista drive back in and enable dual boot between the two drives.

There are people more determined than I am who wouldn't give up on
MCE if it did that again presented with an empty hard drive, but would
figure out where to get the drivers that would keep it from doing that.