Can I use a Virtual Machine to load second OS on dual boot machine?

[Brian]

I have Windows XP Professional installed on two different partitions.
Is there a way to use a Virtual Machine (either vmware or Virtual PC)
to load the OS on the second partition while booted into the OS on the
first partition?

 

[Dave Patrick]

No.

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:
|I have Windows XP Professional installed on two different partitions.
| Is there a way to use a Virtual Machine (either vmware or Virtual PC)
| to load the OS on the second partition while booted into the OS on the
| first partition?
|

 

[Manny Borges]

You can tie a virtual hd to a physical disk, so actually...yes.

But just doing a regular old virtual disk would be best.

BTW OP, Crosspost, don't multipost.

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Manny Borges
MCSE NT4-2003 (+ Security)
MCT, Certified Cheese Master

People say "life is short".
What?
Life is the longest damn thing anyone ever does!
What can you do thats longer?

 

[Dave Patrick]

Thanks Manny. I should have directed the OP to but I see it was
multi-posted;

http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...e15-89c0-4fa3-9c96-22b2f0d124ca&lang=en&cr=US

OP;
Cross-post when necessary, but never multi-post. Cross-posting is when you
include two or more groups in the "Newsgroups:" section. In this scenario
the message and all responses are seen in all groups that the message was
cross-posted to. In other words any replies will automatically propagate to
the other newsgroup posts.

Multi-posting is when you post the same message to two or more groups
individually. In this scenario the message is seen in the groups it is
posted to, but the responses are only seen attached to the message (unless
you cross-post the reply) in which the response was made. So those that
frequent these groups then need to deal with or re-read the posts. It may
seem like a small thing to keep track of. But some of us actively traverse
50 or more groups. The poster also then must search out all of the posts to
see if there was a response.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| You can tie a virtual hd to a physical disk, so actually...yes.
|
| But just doing a regular old virtual disk would be best.
|
| BTW OP, Crosspost, don't multipost.
|
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| --
| Manny Borges
| MCSE NT4-2003 (+ Security)
| MCT, Certified Cheese Master
|
| People say "life is short".
| What?
| Life is the longest damn thing anyone ever does!
| What can you do thats longer?

 

[-E-]

Not as a part of a dual boot, but within an installed OS. Microsoft has the
Virtual PC, vmware has it's own product, works both on Linux and Windows,
and recognizes Linux as a valid " Other" OS.

 

[Harry Ohrn MS MVP]

You can direct VMWare of Virtual PC to create a virtual partition on a
second partition (or drive other than the OS drive/partition)providing you
have that partition visible. For example if my OS partition is C: I can have
VMWARE or Virtual PC setup on D:

You can then install VMWare or Virtual PC on both OS partition and run the
virtual drive from whichever OS you are in.

 

[ax4104]

Hi, I have a similar question but with a twist. I have a dual boot pc with the following OS layout XP64 on C and XP on D. Ideally I'd like to be in the XP64 OS and be able to boot up my XP OS. The XP OS disk is encrypted so the only way to access the data and programs on this OS is to boot into it. I'm a novice and appreciate any advice.