duel boot question??

[sulli]

Hi all. Im thinking about dual booting xp and vista64 from separate partitions on the same disk, what i need to know is do i have to two separate instals of say crysis if i want to try it on both os's??

 

[unwashed potato!]

Hi all. Im thinking about dual booting xp and vista64 from separate partitions on the same disk, what i need to know is do i have to two separate instals of say crysis if i want to try it on both os's??

afaik yes as the game needs to make changes to stuff on the os and not just plunk data in a folder if that makes sense. might be wrong so wait see what other people say

 

[sulli]

Thanks bud, i thought that was probably the case.

 

[Theguy]

a lot of games you dont need 2 copies.. saying that you could always install it twice on the same directory is crysis is a bugger about running the game without reg files.
you could also find the reg files needed on the net, and manualy add them..

 

[Revenant]

Hi all. Im thinking about dual booting xp and vista64 from separate partitions on the same disk, what i need to know is do i have to two separate instals of say crysis if i want to try it on both os's??

You may well know this already, but here's some hopefully useful info regarding the dual boot process...

This applies to the following specifics - 2 physical HD's, XP x86 SP2 & Vista HP x64.

I initially had XP on my C drive and planned on installing Vista over it after a format. However, I need XP to get into work and so I first installed XP SP2 on a second drive and checked I could dual boot between the two (i.e. XP on C:\ & XP on X:\).

I then went ahead with the clean install of Vista HP x64 on C:\.

What I was unaare of is that Vista manages the boot process in a different way and so does not recognise the presence of boot entries other than it's own.

This can be resolved fairly easily, and I'll not go into it now - search for some info.

Hope this helps.

 

[sulli]

Thanks for the info