Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Wed Dec 19 03:32:22 CST 2007
Hi John: I think you can though I have never tried that arrangement. You can either create a new partition on an existing installed drive using some program like partition magic or fdisk a new drive into a couple of partitions. You can install the second OS to the second partition on your drive. Install the first OS and then start installing the second OS. Windows will recognize that you have an existing installation on the drive and will prompt as to whether you wish to over-right the current OS or install the new OS concurrently. You can either write the second install to the C drive or select the D drive. Assuming you have created a second partition/drive install to drive D. After the installations are complete, reboot and you will then be able to select the OS from a command prompt. To set default order of the OS boots up go to MyComputer > properties > Advanced tab > Startup and Recovery Section - Setting Button > System Startup - default operating System and select which OS will boot by default. If you choose to install both OSs to the same drive it should work fine as MS will create a second Windows directory. There are some possible issues with this method as third party applications (not MS) are not always smart about where they store their DLLs and which registry they use. I used this method on my main server, of loading 2 Oss on a C drive, until all the programs had been properly migrated from Win2K and Win2003 and the system worked without issues. Note; programs and patches will have to be loaded twice, like MS Office as each OS Windows directory will have to be configured individually. HTH Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 7:13 PM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: [dba-Tech] dual boot x32 and x64 Can I dual boot Windows 2k3 x32 and Windows 2k3 X64? John W. Colby Colby Consulting www.ColbyConsulting.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com