Dual Boot

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John & Mary Cook said:
Can I dual boot Vista with Win 2000 Pro Sp4?
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Yes you can. I don't know whether they fixed this new beta, but in the old
one if you wish to dual boot with XP you must run the setup from the windows
desktop you already have and choose the partition you wish to install it to.
If you don't then it may overwrite it. This may be the same for win2000.
 
Timothy Drouillard said:
OK, I assume you can also dual-boot Vista-32 and Vista-64. If so, is there
a particular oder in which you install them?

I seem too remember that in the case of XP, and XP-64 you had to install
them in a certain order
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I don't know about that one sorry. I am inclined to say yes but would not
want to assume you can. I don't see a reason why not though if you could do
both XP together. Perhaps someone more knowledgeable than me could help you
with that one :-)
 
No. Any order works for Vista x86 and x64 just like the order does not
matter when dual booting XP Home and Pro. The rule is to install an older
OS first but it does matter with siblings.
 
Well, I installed x32 first, and I'm now installing x64.

We'll find out whether that order works as well.
 
OK, now that I've got Vista-32/Vista-64 dual booting, both entries in the
boot menu are identical. Is there any way to edit the text that appears in
the boot menu?

In NT days, I think the file was boot.ini, but Vista doesn't use that file
anymore.
 
I am dual-booting with xp mce 2005 and booted from the vista dvd when I
installed. I did a test run on another system a few days before I installed
on this pc and installed vista on same partition, the boot selection screen
looked the same as it does now with both os's on different partitions.

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Nickyrock
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Power Up Digital 2528 400 watt PS
Mach Speed Matrix P4M800 Via Socket 478
Intel Celeron D 340 2.93Ghz 256K Cache 533MHz FSB
PNY 1024MB PC3200 DDR 400MHz
Visiontek Xtasy 9600XT (RADEON) 128MB DDR AGP 8X Graphics
Creative Sound Blaster PCI 512 Sound
ATI TV Wonder Elite (THEATERT 550 PRO) TV/Capture
Microsoft Windows XP MCE IR Sensor & Remote
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don't the 64bit os's have a 32bit base also once installed?

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Nickyrock
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Microsoft Vista Beta 2 build 5384
Power Up Digital 2528 400 watt PS
Mach Speed Matrix P4M800 Via Socket 478
Intel Celeron D 340 2.93Ghz 256K Cache 533MHz FSB
PNY 1024MB PC3200 DDR 400MHz
Visiontek Xtasy 9600XT (RADEON) 128MB DDR AGP 8X Graphics
Creative Sound Blaster PCI 512 Sound
ATI TV Wonder Elite (THEATERT 550 PRO) TV/Capture
Microsoft Windows XP MCE IR Sensor & Remote
Maxtor 120gb (system) & 300gb ATA 133mb
BenQ 16/40x DVD/CD Burner DF/DL & Matshita CR-594 CD-Rom
 
HDRDTD said:
Thanks. I may expiriment with dual-booting both Vista-32 and Vista-64.
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May I ask what is the benefit in both? Surely both will be identical except
that 64 will also run 64bit programs?
 
OK, I assume you can also dual-boot Vista-32 and Vista-64. If so, is there a
particular oder in which you install them?

I seem too remember that in the case of XP, and XP-64 you had to install
them in a certain order
 
What is a "32bit base"? I run 64bit XP and Vista and I never heard of a
"32bit base." The x64 distros do support running x86 software through
Windows on Windows64, which is a thin emulation layer, but the OS is 64-bits
all the way.
 
Because we are here to test Vista in its various sku's. Only 5% of the beta
installations are x64 so anyone who can test it should.

The advantage of x86 is greater software compatibility and the advantage of
x64 is greater computing power. The feature sets are the same. The
importance of testing x64 is that it will be the predominate OS within a
year of release and over the lifecycle of Vista x64 will be the standard.
 
Yep. Found it. It worked perfectly for what I wanted.
Now I can somply choose from the menu
Windows Vista 32-bit
Windows Vista 64-bit.

Thanks.
 
X64 may certainly (no one in their right mind would deny be the preferred OS
period, but as to "predominant" after year of relase, I'm willing to bet
wine or something else Colin, that's not the case. Every leading indicator
is that Vista sales period are not going to be the gugernaut undeniable
movement that MSFT thinks it is. Leading polls done with decision maker
buyers fall way short of MSFT's projections for migration, and you would
have to bank no a premise that OEM X64 sales will be brisk enough to drive
that kind of figure or otherwise that enterprises would do that kind of
migration to X64 Vista boxes, and I don't believe OEM computer makers are
going to be able to sell the need that all of a sudden in the next year from
now or in the year after the probably held up again Vista ships to
enterprises that people who buy for them are going to ditch many of their
computers that can run Vista just fine, or even migrate to Vista. Study the
figures. Right now there is a huge percentage of both private users and
enterprises that haven't seen the need to migrate to XP. Look at the bills
you get for a week Colin. Most of those companies aren't even using Windows
XP and aren't going to jump to X64 boxes or even Vista for a very long
while.

CH
 
It's a matter of expirimenting and exploring both flavors of Vista to begin
with.

Also, the system I'm doing this on is a simple system I bought late last
year to run MCE 2005 to record TV shows. Nothing fancy at all, but it was
also bought at the time with the intention of using it as an no'critical
system that I could use to expiriment with.

It's a pretty simple basic system
Dell Dimension E510
630 3.0Ghz cpu
1gig ram
intergrated video
integrated audio
Happauge 150 MCE TV tuner.

Runs just fine using MCE 2005.

But, I wanted to see/expiriment with Vista on this system for a varity of
reasons.
How will the integrated video perform with Vista or would I need to upgrade
it. (works fine, does support glass)
How will the integrated audio work with Vista.
(seems to work fine)
will 1gig of ram be 'enough' to perform decently
(so far so good, but i've just started)

The question of Vista-64.
I also believe that the future will be 64-bit OS's so I wanted to try it,
even though i'm aware that one of the big advantages of Vista-64 (or XP-64)
is the ability to address and use more memory.
I 'only' have 1gig in thios system right now, so I thought I'd see if 1gig
would be 'enough' to run Vista-64 or perhaps it would run slowly, indicating
that if I wanted to stay with Vista-64 i'd best buy more ram.

After trying XP-64 in the past, and knowing that drivers for XP-64 are
sometimes rare, scarce, or simply non-existant, I was curious about the same
issue in Vista-64.

Or, with all things considered, would I simply be better off (at least with
this system and what I'll be using it for) by sticking with Vista-32.


I imagine that once Vista hits the stores, I'll buy another PC that'll ship
with Vista. By that time I'll know by expirimenting with this one, just what
version of what flavor of Vista (32-bit, 64-bit, basic, ultimate, etc) I
want and what kind of system I'll need to runit on.

The adventure continues.
 
But I know from a source I trust that the largest system builder will stop
building computers with x86 cpu's in about six months and will start
supplying x64 as the default preinstalled system a few months after. 95% of
Windows installations are preinstalled by system builders so the
inevitablility seems clear to me.
..
 
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