Originally Posted by raks

Guys,

Ive tried doing dual boot, with xp pro first then vista64, i had some problems with xp after i had updated vista64 to the latest version.

At the time XP would freeze.

So i gave up and stuck with vista64, since ive only go vista64 can i now install xp on the same hdd creating a new partition and will i be able to dual boot.

Or should i stick with vista64, what i most worried about is all my games and apps, what do you all think ?

Over a year ago, when I first got started with Vista x64, I also dual-booted between XP and Vista x64. I didn't have any problems with either after that, but the 3 weeks or so that followed my Vista installation, I realized that I hadn't booted into XP for anything of consequence, and that Vista x64 was working for me even better than I anticipated.

So I proceeded to backup the new data that was added in that time, formatted all my hard disks, and re-installed only Vista x64. I haven't looked back since.

All the games I play, such as the now classic Diablo 2 Lord of Destruction, Empire Earth, and even Tetris 4000 works better than they ever did under XP. The newer Tomb Raider games, Legend and Anniversary are also operating very well. My list of larger applications like Microsoft Office, Borland Delphi, Adobe Premiere Elements are what I use every day, and they work perfectly. The same can be said about the utilities, such as WinZip, MainConcept Encoder and MagicISO.

It all really depends on what you want to install. Most mainstream consumer software packages (large and small) will work without issues. The problem suites are usually the proprietary software packages such as those used for cell phones, or some other specialist tasks.

My recommendation to you? Stick with Vista x64.

Well is it possible "Darth," to pop my old Hard Drive out of my old machine and just pop it in this new one? I'm not so much as interested in keeping the XP pro as I'm just plain lazy. Along with my 8 bazillion games, I have a bunch of article, tons of research and press releases as well as countless hours of digital voice recordings of interviews that I really don't want to take a chance of ruining.

I mainly built (am building I guess would be more accurate) this one to learn how to: A). Learn how to do it, and
B). for a gaming platform.

I've been told that the old switcheroo of the Hard drive isn't exactly as easy as all that...........

Originally Posted by Bubba

odd, my above post doesn't register.

Tell me about it, I've spent the last 20 mins trying to find out why it aint showing

Originally Posted by Bubba

Well is it possible "Darth," to pop my old Hard Drive out of my old machine and just pop it in this new one? I'm not so much as interested in keeping the XP pro as I'm just plain lazy. Along with my 8 bazillion games, I have a bunch of article, tons of research and press releases as well as countless hours of digital voice recordings of interviews that I really don't want to take a chance of ruining.

I mainly built (am building I guess would be more accurate) this one to learn how to: A). Learn how to do it, and
B). for a gaming platform.

I've been told that the old switcheroo of the Hard drive isn't exactly as easy as all that...........

Moving hard drives with an XP installation to another computer is looking for trouble, and invariably leads to a re-install.

My experience with Vista has been quite different. When I recently replaced my computer, I did just that, and Vista booted successfully from the old installation. It went absolutely nuts finding new drivers, and hadto be re-activated, but it did work. But just in case, make a backup image of the drive in question...