Dual Boot Setup

[gabemcg]

I've been planning on dual booting winxp home and winxp pro64 for a while, and am finally getting arround to it. Just wanted to make shure I knew how to do it first. let me know if this will work

I've got winxp home installed, and activated.

I have 64 bit drivers for all of my devices downloaded

I have the winxp pro64 downloaded from microsoft


Windows is currently installed to my 160GB WD Caviar SE 7200rpm (8mb cache) drive. There is just 1 160 gig partition


I will:

1. Set up a second partition on my 160 gig (about 20 gigs should do). Or should I install it to the 80 gig that I have slave to the 160 (or my raid 0 array for that matter 2x80)???

2. Burn the windows xp pro64 install to disk (following instructions on their website)

3. also burn all of my drivers to cd

4. Select the partition I would like to boot xppro to as a bootable partition (in my bios)

5. run the windows install disk, install drivers

6. ?

7 Profit?


Also, what do i use to choose which OS I want to boot, is there third party software for this, or will it be done automatically.

please clue me in as to wether or not I have the right ideas. Links to tutorials are also welcome

 

[Navid]

This by no means is the only way. It is just one of the many possible ways to do what you want.

1- Back up your irreplaceable data.
2- Set up a second partition.
3- Burn the iso image that you have downloaded to a CD.
4- Put the CD in the CD drive and install. When it asks you which partition you want to install to, chose the new partition that set up.

XP recognizes that you have another OS and creates a multi-boot setup. Every time you start the computer, you will see a window that gives you the choice to log into one of the two operating systems. There will be a default. So, if you make no choice, after 30 seconds, it will boot o the default OS.

 

[gabemcg]

thanks