Dual Booting (moved to general hardware)

[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

thanks in advance

 

[SUOrangeman]

> 1. Set up a second partition on my 160 gig

If you've only got one 160GB partition on the drive, how do you propose making another on the 160GB drive?

Although *I* prefer to have all of my OSes on one hard drive, I think you can get away with installing XP64 onto an 80GB drive *while the 160GB is still connected.* Do realize that this will play with your drive letters a little, as XP64 will likely recognize your 160GB partition as C: .

> 2. Burn the windows xp pro64 install to disk

Definitely.

> 3. also burn all of my drivers to cd

Not needed. If anything, you may have to put some disk controller drives on a floppy to even get the XP4 install started (it may not recognized the hard drives).

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

Shouldn't be a need to do this. The XP64 install will likely do it for you.

-SUO