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Old 11-26-2007   #1 (permalink)
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Dual boot, can Vista be pointed to XP games on a different volume?

Dual boot, can Vista be pointed to XP games on a different volume?

I'm currently running XP and I want to install Vista on a separate partition
so I have a dual boot scenario. However, under XP my games reside in a
different volume on my c: drive system partition. In fact my games are on my
separate 320 GB hard drive, in a separate program files directory so as not
to lose this vast quantity of new and old games if Windows XP need to
reinstall.

I seem to remember reading in a beta article that it would be possible to
dual boot from XP to Vista and then point Vista, after the dual boot install,
to my games directory on a different volume hard drive partition.

Was I imagining this perfect scenario or is this in fact possible?

Any help appreciated before I install Vista ultimate, because I do not want
to have to reinstall 50 plus games, thanking you Optical10

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Old 11-27-2007   #2 (permalink)
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Re: Dual boot, can Vista be pointed to XP games on a different volume?

Not all the games will work for u , but I do it all the time and never had trouble.
Note. The game must be crack ones (by the mean of they don’t need there DVD to run)
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Old 11-29-2007   #3 (permalink)
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Re: Dual boot, can Vista be pointed to XP games on a different volume?

"optical10" <optical10@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Dual boot, can Vista be pointed to XP games on a different volume?
>
> I'm currently running XP and I want to install Vista on a separate
> partition
> so I have a dual boot scenario. However, under XP my games reside in a
> different volume on my c: drive system partition. In fact my games are on
> my
> separate 320 GB hard drive, in a separate program files directory so as
> not
> to lose this vast quantity of new and old games if Windows XP need to
> reinstall.
>
> I seem to remember reading in a beta article that it would be possible to
> dual boot from XP to Vista and then point Vista, after the dual boot
> install,
> to my games directory on a different volume hard drive partition.
>
> Was I imagining this perfect scenario or is this in fact possible?
>
> Any help appreciated before I install Vista ultimate, because I do not
> want
> to have to reinstall 50 plus games, thanking you Optical10
Sure, Say you boot into Vista and it see's your XP drive as D:

Run the game installer and install the game to D:\Program Files\etc\etc\etc\
instead of C:\Program Files\etc\etc\etc\

That'll setup Vista with all the system files necessary to run the game, and
re-copy over the program files to your XP drive (Shouldn't effect the XP
install). When you reboot into XP the game should still run. Unless the game
stores configuration files in the Program Files folder (which is a no-no
anyways), or some other problem should arise, but for the most part this
should work assuming the XP drive is NTFS format since Vista no longer has
the ability to read FAT32 hard drives. (I think)

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Old 11-30-2007   #4 (permalink)
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"Andy [YaYa]" wrote:
Quote:

> "optical10" <optical10@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:3ADAD08D-26B5-4162-93A0-34E8B8D6AEDC@xxxxxx
Quote:

> > Dual boot, can Vista be pointed to XP games on a different volume?
> >
> > I'm currently running XP and I want to install Vista on a separate
> > partition
> > so I have a dual boot scenario. However, under XP my games reside in a
> > different volume on my c: drive system partition. In fact my games are on
> > my
> > separate 320 GB hard drive, in a separate program files directory so as
> > not
> > to lose this vast quantity of new and old games if Windows XP need to
> > reinstall.
> >
> > I seem to remember reading in a beta article that it would be possible to
> > dual boot from XP to Vista and then point Vista, after the dual boot
> > install,
> > to my games directory on a different volume hard drive partition.
> >
> > Was I imagining this perfect scenario or is this in fact possible?
> >
> > Any help appreciated before I install Vista ultimate, because I do not
> > want
> > to have to reinstall 50 plus games, thanking you Optical10
>
> Sure, Say you boot into Vista and it see's your XP drive as D:
>
> Run the game installer and install the game to D:\Program Files\etc\etc\etc\
> instead of C:\Program Files\etc\etc\etc\
>
> That'll setup Vista with all the system files necessary to run the game, and
> re-copy over the program files to your XP drive (Shouldn't effect the XP
> install). When you reboot into XP the game should still run. Unless the game
> stores configuration files in the Program Files folder (which is a no-no
> anyways), or some other problem should arise, but for the most part this
> should work assuming the XP drive is NTFS format since Vista no longer has
> the ability to read FAT32 hard drives. (I think)
Thank You "Andy [YaYa]" for your reply, it's been useful and I will have to
try it on a game per game basics from what you are saying as many of my games
are older games which I really do not want to have two get rid of.
The other thing is I'm not in a hurry, but I'll do a test installation of
the oldest game to see how it goes report back within a month.
Once again I thank you for your reply,Optical10
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