OS question

[bruinator]

I have win 7 installed on its own HD of 70GB. I installed another 500GB into the same rig. I partitioned of the new HD into 2 different partitions of 100GB in size. I want to install XP on 1 partition and vista on the other partition. Will this cause any error to my rig or will it continue to run as it is suppose to? Please let me know.

thx

 

[DeaconFrost]

No, you would need to have the oldest OS installed first, which would be XP. Intead of complicating things and messing with a multi-boot system, leave the 500 GB drive as one large data drive, and get a copy of VirtualBox. for the other two OSes.

 

[Demon10000]

I have win 7 installed on its own HD of 70GB. I installed another 500GB into the same rig. I partitioned of the new HD into 2 different partitions of 100GB in size. I want to install XP on 1 partition and vista on the other partition. Will this cause any error to my rig or will it continue to run as it is suppose to? Please let me know.

thx

So you've got two drives:

Drive 1:
--Partition 1 [Windows 7]
Drive 2:
--Partition 1 [New Windows XP]
--Partition 2 [New Vista Partition]
--[300gb unpartitioned space]

You should have no problems installing XP on one of the new partitions, then installing Vista on the second. It is not complicated if you do it in that order.

You'll need to boot with that Win7 CD and make your installation bootable again. You should be able to follow vista instructions to get this done. It's not that difficult.