I have windows vista and windows xp installed on my separate partitions on my hard drive. I wondered if there wasa quick way to switch between the 2 instead of restarting and booting up again??
2007-12-02 03:02:04 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
afraid so mate that is the only way I HAVE DUAL BOOT but on two different hard drives
but I can transfer files by drag and drop between the two drives and also for the person who asked why have two systems on one computer.
a lot of hardware have not got proper drivers for vista and as a consequence some peripherals will not work with vista having a dual boot system enables you to use the the hardware as and when you want, so you see I have not had to get rid of anything I bought years ago that is not compatible with vista so I get the best of both worlds
2007-12-02 03:15:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Vista is the first OS with a equipped-in partitioning facility. administration Panel - Administrative approaches - pc administration. once you spot your force displayed, properly click on it and choose decrease. which will decrease the dimensions of your modern-day sole partition and furnish you with a 2d one. the 2d one must be formatted and then made into an user-friendly volume. although, the difficult area is Microsoft's rule - earliest OS is going on first - XP before Vista. You and that i both want a similar effect. in case you basically placed the XP on the recent partition, the dual boot gained't paintings because you've already got the more moderen OS (Vista) on your pc. My HDD is partitioned in 0.5 yet i have placed domicile windows 7 on the recent partition because i could not get the dual boot to paintings after I placed XP on
2016-10-25 07:39:50 · answer #2 · answered by desmangles 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes you can, but you need to install a program called Virtual PC from Microsoft
Virtual PC will allow you to create a "virtual machine" and install a second OS which can be run and accessed from the booted OS
2007-12-02 03:10:18 · answer #3 · answered by Big Dave 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
ironically, the only way to do that is on a mac. the OS choice screen comes very early in the bootloader process, so even if you could go back to that spot directly, it would only save you about 4-5 seconds anyway.
i'm kind of curious as to why you would need to toggle between two virtually idential OS's that both run the same software.
2007-12-02 03:06:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
A shrewd analyst would have told you to get 2 computers.
PS. No
2007-12-02 03:06:29 · answer #5 · answered by snvffy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thats the same with me, my Dad is an engineer and my bro is OBSESSED(sp?) with computers, i asked them and they both said that for me thats the only way so it might be the same for u
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2007-12-02 03:07:09 · answer #6 · answered by Danielle 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋