Dual Booting

[poorquality]

HI all, just joined the forums, hope this is the right place, so here goes:

Well I recently ordered a PC from Aria, comes with a 500gb HDD, now it has 4gb of RAM which I know is only fully recognised using a 64bit OS, but 3.45 or something is recognised using a 32 bit OS (so not too bad really).

I have heard about some older games having issues with using Vista, so I was thinking since I have plenty of HDD space, could I dual-boot Vista 64bit and XP 32bit?

I'm thinking it's possible if I set the partitions when installing the seperate OS's to the relevant size of each OS. I think this would allow me to install both operating systems, and have the remaining HDD space available to be seen and used when using either of the installed operating systems.

Would this work the way I have planned it? If not is there a way to do this?

Thanks for any help.

[Monkey]

Yeah it would work kinda that way, are you using xp 32bit or vista 32bit?

If XP then i would install that first on a small partition around 100gb and then install vista afterwards

Doesnt screw up the boot (just saying boot cos i cant think for the life of me what the **** its called :P) that way

Have fun!

Any questions, theres loads of people who can help

[poorquality]

Yeah it would work kinda that way, are you using xp 32bit or vista 32bit?

If XP then i would install that first on a small partition around 100gb and then install vista afterwards

Doesnt screw up the boot (just saying boot cos i cant think for the life of me what the **** its called :P) that way

Have fun!

Any questions, theres loads of people who can help

Thanks for the quick response.

Yes it's XP which is 32bit and Vista which is 64bit.

If I create a 100GB partition for XP32bit, what sort of Partition would I need for Vista64bit?

Bit of a random add-on question really at the end here, but I don't suppose it's possible, if the mood strikes me, to make it a tri-boot with a version of Linux (if I want to dabble)?

[Lynx]

If you want to add linux, that itself will have its own bootloader, from which you can pick windows, then pick xp or vista, depends on how you set it up, but you will have the linux boot loader with it. I would say 100GB vista then the rest as common files between the two.

[Monkey]

+1 to what lynx said

[poorquality]

If you want to add linux, that itself will have its own bootloader, from which you can pick windows, then pick xp or vista, depends on how you set it up, but you will have the linux boot loader with it. I would say 100GB vista then the rest as common files between the two.

Thanks for the help, I think I will stick with XP + Vista dual-boot for now. But i'll definately keep the Linux idea in mind, a bootloader would be useful.

[Monkey]

If you do want linux you may wanna goto the ubuntu website for a iso download, burn it to cd and install of the disk as a boot drive or run it in windows


EDIT: or just install ubuntu and run xp and vista from ubuntu :P

The choice is yours