32 and 64Bit on one PC

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Grant

Will installing vista Home Premium 32 bit and 64 bit on the same PC work?
will the Boot manager work? Which one should be installed first.

You may ask why, the reason is i need to learn the ins and outs of both.
 
Yes - I have WinXP, Vista x86 and Vista x64 as a triple boot. Search for
VistaBootPRO_3.1.exe and load it in to one of the Vista installations so you
can change the boot loader to your liking. Or if you like mucking around at
the command level, run bcdedtit.exe and make the changes.

Oh yeah... unless you have licenses for both, only one version can be
activated but you can use them both for 30 days. Do a clean install on both
versions (not upgrade), then do an upgrade from within Vista on the one you
want to keep. Many posts over in m.p.w.v.installation_setup newsgroup.

Bob S.
 
Yes. Yes. Probably does not matter.

You must have two valid Product ID keys, of course--unless you only want to
run one of them for a limited time.
 
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