Luckily we can do it without any 3rd party software. Right-click on the drive and select Shrink Volume. Right-click that and select New Simple Volume. When you get to the Format Partition section, NTFS is selected by default as the file system and you can leave that as is. Boot from the XP installation disk and start the install process. In this example we made a 10GB partition for the XP install. Windows will run through some installation bits, restart a few times in the process.
Eventually, you'll be prompted to set up your account, enter your license key, and set up Windows. What's more, if you need to migrate your settings, documents, and applications from XP to Windows 7, the " Partition Clone Wizard "feature built-in Partition Assistant is the best choice. About Windows 7 Compare to its predecessors, Windows 7 includes many new features, such as advances in touch and handwriting recognition, support for virtual hard disks, improved performance on multi-core processors, improved boot performance, DirectAccess, and kernel improvements.
How to dual boot Windows 7 and Windows XP? Step 1. When finished you should have a dual boot. Please bear in mind, that my answer is based on the details given in your post. The more I get the better the answer, Slan go foill, Paul. To clarify: If I install Win 7 on the new hard drive having first installed xp pro as win 7pro is an upgrade version , disconnect it and then install xp on the old hard drive.
The thing is that for win 7 to know about XP pro you would need to have XP instaled and the drive hooked up to have win 7 setup the boot options. You can use a third party util talked about here many times. Thanks for your help. Sounds like good advice. Tuesday, January 12, AM. This is a more foolproof method: Install Win 7 with only that one drive in the system. This will then give it separate boot files to XP. Plug in the XP drive again.
Dk Gawd. Joined Sep 24, Messages Nenu said:. Click to expand Ok, so if I'm understanding this correctly, it looks like this method keeps the 2 OS's completely isolated? Is there a faster way to choose which OS to boot instead of always needing to go into the bios to pick the boot order? I don't have any blank dvds at the moment, so is there a way to burn the iso onto multiple cds? Yes, it makes the OS's independent.
Just after the POST, you may get an option to select which drive to boot from. It will require you to press F5 or some other key.
The DVD must be burnt to one disk unless you want to make your own installer. MrF Gawd. Joined Feb 18, Messages Then, you do not have to do anything to boot to that OS. Only if you want to boot the other OS, press F12 at boot and choose the other drive.
You cannot split the install onto multiple CDs. Then, you can use the same DVD multiple times. TheGamerZ Supreme [H]ardness. Joined Sep 18, Messages 5, Why dual boot xp and 7 when you can run xp within 7?
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