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Hey everyone! I need help. I am trying to Dual Boot my Windows XP with Vista already installed. I read some tutorials on the internet and it says that you have to partition a part of your drive in order to do this. There isn't a way that I could ...


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Old 11th Sep 2008, 18:14
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Hey everyone!

I need help.

I am trying to Dual Boot my Windows XP with Vista already installed. I read some tutorials on the internet and it says that you have to partition a part of your drive in order to do this. There isn't a way that I could just dual boot and FULLY use both my C drive and my D drive ???

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Old 11th Sep 2008, 18:36
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No, just install it on the other drive, but you'll need to partition that other drive if you want to keep current data.

Also, installing over two drives is wonky and you may end up needing to switch the drives in the BIOS for the boot loader to get it right.
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If you want each OS on a seperate drive, why not use a removable caddy, instead of looking at a dual boot setup.
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