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    Formatting & Dual Booting M17X

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by PurelySatanic, Nov 27, 2009.

  1. PurelySatanic

    PurelySatanic Notebook Geek

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    Hey, so today I was thinking of formatting my drive and partitioning it into two so that I could dual boot Win7x64 and WinXPx64, any downsides to using WinXP as my Gaming OS and using Win7 as my productivity OS?

    Any suggestions would be great.
    Thanks!