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GoldenWarrior View user's profile Send private message

Reply with quote Tuesday, April 17, 2012

well you can

Example:you have windows 7 and also want to have windows xp, but you don't want to delete winodws 7, meaning you want both windows on one computer

how to do it:
1.you must have 2 hard disk's on your pc
(Example: Hard disk C and Hard disk D)
2.you need to have a disk with the other window's
3.follow the instructions below

Instructions
1.if your default windows is on disk C, then install it on D
2.the only way to acsess the other windows is by restarting your pc
3.when you start your pc you will get a black screen telling you what windows you want to start up


If by any chance you want to have it back to the ways it was, in one of the windows:
1. run cmd
2. type in msconfig
3. there should be a place for the OS's and they both should have check marks, take off the other OS and your done

need any help just ask Very Happy

Wolverine View user's profile Send private message

Reply with quote Tuesday, April 17, 2012

you found out only now??

well okay, but you don't need TWO hard disks. Maybe two drives.

Konan View user's profile Send private message

Reply with quote Tuesday, April 17, 2012

don't forget, he's a fearsome creature..

GoldenWarrior View user's profile Send private message

Reply with quote Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Konan wrote : don't forget, he's a fearsome creature..


that was so this Sunday, I was bored Laughing

Linkxp500 View user's profile Send private message

Reply with quote Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Either way, this is actually common knowledge. Anyone knows they can use more than one Operating System. But not everyone knows how to do it right. That's why there's an internet. Razz

Ask questions and get definite answers about procedures.

LegendarySS4 View user's profile Send private message

Reply with quote Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Arnold uses two.

GoldenWarrior View user's profile Send private message

Reply with quote Tuesday, April 17, 2012

*laughing out loud* I wasn't asking how to do it, I was was explaining how Very Happy

najeeb My Sir View user's profile Send private message

Reply with quote Thursday, April 19, 2012

uhh you don't need 2 hard disks

you need a hard disk with enough space and 2 partition or more

install windows 7 first , then install xp , when you boot xp will be the one that will boot , start windows 7 repair and it will make it the default windows again , if you want 2 of them in the os selection simply download a utility which lets you set the amount of time for the selection to be made or the os that you want to be the first one or the second one , you can manage as many os as you want with these utilities

LegendarySS4 View user's profile Send private message

Reply with quote Thursday, April 19, 2012

Just use one Razz

JadenKorn Totally Explicit View user's profile Send private message

Reply with quote Saturday, April 21, 2012

LegendarySS4 wrote : Arnold uses two.


That's true. In my case, it's Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04.
Actually, if you're using the good ol' fashioned MBR (Master Boot Record) partitioning scheme, you can hold only 4 primary partitions. So that means you can hold up to four operating systems at once.
Buuuut, you can use as many logical partitions IF you decide to sacrifice a primary partition and turn it into an extended partition layer, in which you can have your logical partitions. For example, Linux operating systems are super okay on being installed on logical partitions.

Or if you're luckier and also going with the GPT partition scheme, then you can practically have unlimited primary partitions, meaning unlimited operating systems. However, Windows Vista/7/8 can read up to 127, so there you go! Razz

And further more, you need either a bootmanager to be able to start other operating systems (Usually all Linux systems come with a bootmanager that can boot off pretty much all major operating systems), or if you have Windows MBR as base, then you have to boot per partition (by setting the partition to active via a partition manager manually).

Grega Perpetual Traveler View user's profile Send private message

Reply with quote Saturday, April 21, 2012

I have 3 OS-s installed on this PC.

I'm thinking of adding a couple more though. Different Linux builds.

In any case yeah. You don't need 2 Hard Drives. Just 2 partitions.

And not even that is to necessary.

As far as I recall you can choose your windows directory.

I believe I once had Win 98 and Win XP installed on the same partition.

Just the root windows directory was different. One named win98 and the other winxp

Konan View user's profile Send private message

Reply with quote Saturday, April 21, 2012

sandbox softwares are good to for testing things

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