Comments on: Is It Possible to Dual Boot Windows 7 Ultimate and Windows Xp Home Edition on a Single Hard-Drive?

By: smillas

smillas — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:34:57 +0000

each edition requires a seperate hardrive to be safe call microsoft tech direct and if possible they will guide you to do it right over the phone and tell you the plusses and negs if you should even do it.I personally feel dual boots slow down everything and its better to keep one version on 1 system and the other on another

By: steve_loir

steve_loir — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:46:13 +0000

Yes.
You must install Windows 7 after XP. (Always install the newest OS first.)
It should find another Windows installation and set the BOOT.INI to give you dual boot. If it doesn’t, editing the BOOT.INI is fairly easy.