Yet another dual boot question

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Hi, I thought I would be fine on this, but after having read through a few
posts I'm more confused than ever.
At present I have two hard disks on my machine, I have XP Pro on my first
disk, c: and the second drive has a 20GB backup partition on it f:(Data from
c:) I also have set up my virtual memory on a 3GB partition (p:)on the second
hard drive as well. Both drives are 80 GB sata. (side note - I noticed a very
significant speed boost after doing this with the virtual memory)
So, what's my best plan of attack here, I want to install Vista 64 on my
computer and dual boot with XP Pro. Do I just pop the dvd in the drive and
clcik through the installation?
I do expect to maintain XP Pro as my main OS, Vista will most likely be
wiped out after a period of time.
I just thought I had better plan this out to make sure I can access my XP
Pro without any problems.
Cheers from Peter.
 
pmccrackan said:
Hi, I thought I would be fine on this, but after having read through a few
posts I'm more confused than ever.
At present I have two hard disks on my machine, I have XP Pro on my first
disk, c: and the second drive has a 20GB backup partition on it f:(Data
from
c:) I also have set up my virtual memory on a 3GB partition (p:)on the
second
hard drive as well. Both drives are 80 GB sata. (side note - I noticed a
very
significant speed boost after doing this with the virtual memory)
So, what's my best plan of attack here, I want to install Vista 64 on my
computer and dual boot with XP Pro. Do I just pop the dvd in the drive and
clcik through the installation?
I do expect to maintain XP Pro as my main OS, Vista will most likely be
wiped out after a period of time.
I just thought I had better plan this out to make sure I can access my XP
Pro without any problems.
Cheers from Peter.
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The way I did it, and the way I have always added extra operating systems is
by using BootitNG. www.bootitng.com It's the only sure-fire way I know of
for the average person to make sure that installing a new OS does not mess
up your main OS. I can supply details if you are interested in going this
route, and there are instructional videos on the website as well.

Lee
 
Lee said:
The way I did it, and the way I have always added extra operating
systems is by using BootitNG. www.bootitng.com It's the only sure-fire
way I know of for the average person to make sure that installing a new
OS does not mess up your main OS. I can supply details if you are
interested in going this route, and there are instructional videos on
the website as well.

Lee
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Are they still charging $35 for BootItNG?
 
I cannot find any info on BootitNG.com, seems to be a dead link, tried
google, and all the spelling variations I could think of.
Anyway, I'm not all that interested in buying software to help with dual
booting. I would prefer to learn the good, bad and the ugly points myself.
thanks anyway.
 
I think it's $39, still one of the best software values.
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It is a great value. It's less than either Ghost or Acronis True
Image, and it performs some of the functions of Partition Magic, as
well, doesn't it?
 
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