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    Dual boot Vista 64 bits and XP pro with Qosmio X300 with 2 HD,s ?

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by frakri, Oct 14, 2008.

  1. frakri

    frakri Notebook Enthusiast

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    Dual boot Vista 64 bits and XP pro with Qosmio X300 with 2 HD,s ?
    Have seen many solutions for dualbooting but all referees to partions of 1 HD but noe one for pc with 2 HD,s.
    Any solution out therer because my Do-organizer31 will not work with Vista 64 bits ?
    Ore is it so easy as boot in HD 2 first and setup XP there and use a bootloader ?
    Thanks in advance
     
    frakri, Oct 14, 2008
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    Andy Notebook Prophet

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    Its the same thing. Partitions or HDDs don't matter. The elaborate guides are to show how to partition effectively.

    Since you have two HDDs, you just need to setup the boot-loader, so both OSs are detected.

    Would be better if you install XP first, and then Vista, as Vista's bootloader will completely take over the system and will also list XP in the bootloader as a previous edition of windows. (Backward Compatibility)
     
    Andy, Oct 14, 2008
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    frakri Notebook Enthusiast

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    My problem is howe to sett up XP Pro in the second hd, becuse this is empty.
     
    frakri, Oct 14, 2008
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    Boot through the XP CD, and choose the 2nd HDD. It'll come up as unpartitioned space, if its RAW.
     
    Andy, Oct 14, 2008
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