Dual Boot Pure Win7 Pro & Pure Xp Pro

[Gene E. Bloch]

Virtual is OK for some things but not for others:

1) interfacing hardware (not printers or scanners) - what I do
2) timing considerations - what I do.
3) verify apps I develop run in native XP properly.

The apps I develop are not eMail programs or word processors or spreadsheets
or such that have little timing consequences.

I have hardware devices that require tight timing and direct as possible
hardware interfacing.

My apps run multiple threads and need to get as close the CPU as possible.

It is bad enough to try to troubleshoot apps on XP or Win7 without having to
go through both Win7 and XP.

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You confused me a bit, but I finally figured out that you *need* items
1, 2, and 3...I first read it that you were listing the OK items, then
realized you were pointing out the others, the ones that are *not* OK
with a VM .

Of course, I accept what you say, given your needs, so it looks like I
need to broaden my horizons a bit

 

[Muad'Dib]

No need. I just boot my machine, hit F8, select the drive I want, hit
Enter and that's it. I don't find that to be very complicated or
inconvenient.

I did that with my main computer for a long time before I replaced it.
Just put both drives in the case, only hooked up one, installed the OS I
wanted, disconnected, and connected the second drive and installed the
other OS, reconnect the first drive. Set the default drive I wanted in
Bios to boot first. Later just hitting the F8 key during boot which was
quick I could then choose the secondary drive to boot if I so choose. I
don't see anything complicated about that.

Cheers

 

[...winston]

BeeJ,
Hopefully you've already achieved success in dual booting WinXP and Win7.
I've glanced over the thread...if late or the below has already been
covered/resolved excuse the jumping into the middle of the thread.

1. Correct, RC's instructions are top notch. I can personally attest to his
method having followed his advice to triple boot a recent entire system
redo....i.e. they work
2. Not sure if its been asked though and I've seen a few partially non
functional dual boot (XP/Win7) systems where the newest hardware (these days
mostly designed for Win7) required some effort to obtain the specific
drivers for XP (most notably Chipset, Network, Sata drivers)..i.e. current
drivers for the onboard/add-on hardware may not always be available for XP.

Thus... If you've not started you dual boot install....ensure you have the
necessary drivers. If your need drive is SATA, iirc, you may need to install
the SATA driver prior to installing the XP.


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"BeeJ" wrote in message
That is what I was looking for ... which one to install first.

So do XP then Win7.

And I could use two hard disks or create two partitions when I first
install XP and use the second partition when I install Win7.

Correct?

 

[Muad'Dib]

Well, if you have one or more drives with Linux, it's a good idea to
disconnect all other drives when there's a Grub or Kernel update.

Actually I had XP and Vista dual booting on one drive, and Linux all
to it's self on the other. Worked out great. Had a huge failure with, of
course, Vista and that drive, was able to reboot to the Linux drive,
save recent files that hadn't been backed up yet, redo the Winders drive
and restore files. Later after installing Win7 and triple booting I
foolishly wasn't paying attention and allowed Win7 updates to update a
video driver and wound up with the black screen of death which was
unrecoverable. Again booted to the Linux drive, saved files and redid
Win7. I don't multi boot Linux Distros, I run any other Distro in a VM
for evaluation, or install on a test machine if I want real world testing.

On the new main machine I just dual boot Win7 and Linux, and run XP in a
VM in Linux. I just do image backups now and should I have a failure can
just re-image. Lol, yeah got lazy lately, but then I have been so very
busy with other things. I can't tell you when I booted to Win7 last as
if I need to do something only Windows related, I just boot the XP VM,
like when I have to log onto the company business site. Yeah the morons
wrote pages for only MS browsers. Can't even use Firefox when booted to
Winders to view the pages. Goes to show you the lack of, or one sided
training they got. Ah well, at least I don't need to log onto the
site(s) very often.

Cheers

 

[Jack]

You're an excellent teacher, R C. This is first rate. It's the sort of
clear, well laid out type of exposition I aim at but don't often reach.
And yes, I did used to be a teacher.

Ed

I second, third and so on that. Excellent and clear advice and the exact
same way I did my own..