Xp and Vista 64bit

Yes, and I'd probably install XP first and then Vista afterwards. Vista is more aware of XP than XP is of Vista if you get me, but that's just my way of doing things.
 
Partition your drive & install each operating system on a different partition. On boot your system should ask you to choose what to boot. Out of interest why do you want to do this?
 
pick up a seperate hard drive, do it that way
ive got
xp32
vista64
win 7
all on seperate drives
boot between them in the bios
 
SniperLes said:
Partition your drive & install each operating system on a different partition. On boot your system should ask you to choose what to boot. Out of interest why do you want to do this?
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Cos some old games only seem to like xp.
But i want both ;) would it not be a problem doing it this way then.

valerian said:
pick up a seperate hard drive, do it that way
ive got
xp32
vista64
win 7
all on seperate drives
boot between them in the bios
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So each time you want 1 of the Windows, you have to keep going into the bios i take it :D
 
I'm running them both on one disk fine. In regards to choosing them you don't have to literally go in and set it, you get a prompt on boot to choose which OS you wish to load. There's a 30 second window before it defaults.
 
up2nogooduk said:
So each time you want 1 of the Windows, you have to keep going into the bios i take it :D
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press escape for boot options if you wish to change...its fairly quick

but as pointed out in 2 separate posts
partition the hard drive as you dont want to be installing them on the same drive and also......install xp first.

its fairly straight forward so you shouldnt have a problem
 
theheyes said:
I'm running them both on one disk fine. In regards to choosing them you don't have to literally go in and set it, you get a prompt on boot to choose which OS you wish to load. There's a 30 second window before it defaults.
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memory said:
press escape for boot options if you wish to change...its fairly quick

but as pointed out in 2 separate posts
partition the hard drive as you dont want to be installing them on the same drive and also......install xp first.
Ok cool, so of course partition first in the bios section. then shall i name the other one F, or something like that ? or would this do it on it's own.
Thanks

its fairly straight forward so you shouldnt have a problem
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theheyes said:
If he has a 64 bit CPU then fine, not a problem.
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Cool thanks a lot :)
 
I have Vista 64 on one drive and XP Home on another. What i did when installing them was to disconnect one drive and installed Vista 64 on the other. Then i disconnected the Vista drive and installed XP on the other. I then connected both drives up. On boot-up i hit Esc (F8 on some boards) and select which drive to boot from. Takes seconds to do.

I did it for the same reasons as you by the way. Some games just work better on XP.
 
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pastymuncher said:
I have Vista 64 on one drive andf XP Home on another. What i did when installing them was to disconnect one drive and installed Vista 64 on the other. Then i disconnected the Vista drive and installed XP on the other. I then connected both drives up. On boot-up i hit Esc (F8 on some boards) and select which drive to boot from. Takes seconds to do.

I did it for the same reasons as you by the way. Some games just work better on XP.
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Cool thanks for that :)
Thats what will do then, get another drive :)
 
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