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Resolved dual boot xp and 7

Discussion in 'Windows 7' started by gghartman, 2009/10/13.

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    gghartman

    gghartman Inactive Thread Starter

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    i have a pre-brought windows 7 pro coming from microsoft one of these days and i want to bual boot with xp pro. this machine is my transfer machine and for testing. going to install another drive just for the windows 7 install. machine is an amd athlon x64 2.2ghz with 2g memory.

    anything i need to consider in doing this ??? am pretty familar with dual boot but havent seen 7 yet so just asking if any advice i might need.

    thanks....greg
     
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    Steve R Jones

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    It's pretty straight forward. Leave the XP drive connected when you boot off Win7's dvd and you should be fine.
     
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    gghartman

    gghartman Inactive Thread Starter

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    steve r. jones

    thanks man i thought it was pretty much the same as in the past but wanted to make sure.

    thanks.....greg
     
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