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    Dual Booting Question

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by Darthsnipe, Dec 10, 2008.

  1. Darthsnipe

    Darthsnipe Notebook Geek

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    Is it possible to dual boot between Vista 64 bit and 32 bit with the same provided recovery disk??? Gateway P6860FX...please I want to take advantage of my 4gigs ram while having legacy compatibility in a 32bit version of windows...like 32 bit for office and printer use and 64bit for gaming and itunes...
     
    Darthsnipe, Dec 10, 2008
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  2. BigHops323

    BigHops323 Notebook Deity

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    Sure, why not? Just create two partitions and keep them straight....
     
    BigHops323, Dec 10, 2008
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  3. ahl395

    ahl395 Ahlball

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    Yep.

    Its just like dual booting with any other 2 OS's. 2 Partitions, 2 diffrent OS's.

    Should work fine. ;)
     
    ahl395, Dec 10, 2008
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  4. dtwn

    dtwn C'thulhu fhtagn

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    Yes you can, I'm doing it right now.

    Just a note, it can be a pain in the behind.
     
    dtwn, Dec 10, 2008
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  5. Darthsnipe

    Darthsnipe Notebook Geek

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    how so? please elaborate
     
    Darthsnipe, Dec 11, 2008
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  6. dtwn

    dtwn C'thulhu fhtagn

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    It's mostly the switching between operating systems that can be a pain. Accessing files can also be occasionally annoying as you have to search the other OS's documents occasionally.

    The installation is fairly simple, but sometimes you forget which OS you're on as well.
     
    dtwn, Dec 11, 2008
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  7. cpaxson

    cpaxson Newbie

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    Create your partitions with windows disk management, which can be located by right clicking the MY COMPUTER icon. Create your partition, then begin your setup disk. Make sure to specify the installation to the new partition. Once you've completed the installation, I'd recommend you get a boot disk loader. I used Easy BCD, I happen to have Ubuntu, Vista, XP, and Puppy setup in seperate partitions on my home pc. The BCD will create a boot prompt that will prompt you to choose an OS to boot right after the post.
     
    cpaxson, Dec 11, 2008
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  8. ahl395

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    lol, i can imagine that. :p
     
    ahl395, Dec 11, 2008
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  9. dtwn

    dtwn C'thulhu fhtagn

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    32 and 64 don't really have visual differences especially if you have the same settings. You only find out when you try to run something and it fails, leaving you to go, "DOH!". :p
     
    dtwn, Dec 11, 2008
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