Forced dual boot

I know that the normal way to go about dual boot is to install the oldest OS
first, but I just discovered (after a year) some old programs which won't run
on my Vista 64 setup. I'd like to run these old programs but at the cost of
uninstalling /reinstalling Vista it's not worth it.

I have quite a bit of space, so making a new boot partition for ocasional
boots - without the uninstall just choose which disk volum to boot from -
seems ideal. Anyone forsee any problems with this?

It sounds like you are talking about 1 drive and 2 partitions. This would
be a problem.
If you are talking about 2 partitions on 2 drives, install your second OS
with the first drive temporarily disconnected.

"Canyonaro" <Canyonaro@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I know that the normal way to go about dual boot is to install the oldest
>OS
> first, but I just discovered (after a year) some old programs which won't
> run
> on my Vista 64 setup. I'd like to run these old programs but at the cost
> of
> uninstalling /reinstalling Vista it's not worth it.
>
> I have quite a bit of space, so making a new boot partition for ocasional
> boots - without the uninstall just choose which disk volum to boot from -
> seems ideal. Anyone forsee any problems with this?

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<Canyonaro@discussions.microsoft.com> says...
> I know that the normal way to go about dual boot is to install the oldest OS
> first, but I just discovered (after a year) some old programs which won't run
> on my Vista 64 setup. I'd like to run these old programs but at the cost of
> uninstalling /reinstalling Vista it's not worth it.
>
> I have quite a bit of space, so making a new boot partition for ocasional
> boots - without the uninstall just choose which disk volum to boot from -
> seems ideal. Anyone forsee any problems with this?

Just install your XP at the free partition, and installs EasyBCD
on it. With this you can restore the Vista bootstrap, and leave
the XP, a dual boot.

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Have a read of the above link.
A better way for you might be to set up a Virtual Machine..
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"Canyonaro" wrote:

> I know that the normal way to go about dual boot is to install the oldest OS
> first, but I just discovered (after a year) some old programs which won't run
> on my Vista 64 setup. I'd like to run these old programs but at the cost of
> uninstalling /reinstalling Vista it's not worth it.
>
> I have quite a bit of space, so making a new boot partition for ocasional
> boots - without the uninstall just choose which disk volum to boot from -
> seems ideal. Anyone forsee any problems with this?

Hi,

Run them in a Virtual Machine, no dual-booting is necessary. Download and
install Virtual PC for free, then create an environment with the older OS
and install programs there.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
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Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Canyonaro" <Canyonaro@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:05B4FF3E-552A-4938-82A8-7DDA11D12661@microsoft.com...
>I know that the normal way to go about dual boot is to install the oldest
>OS
> first, but I just discovered (after a year) some old programs which won't
> run
> on my Vista 64 setup. I'd like to run these old programs but at the cost
> of
> uninstalling /reinstalling Vista it's not worth it.
>
> I have quite a bit of space, so making a new boot partition for ocasional
> boots - without the uninstall just choose which disk volum to boot from -
> seems ideal. Anyone forsee any problems with this?