atw: Re: Upgrading computers

  • From: Hedley Finger <hfinger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:31:32 +1100


Slinka:

At Thursday, 20/12/2007, 09:46 PM;, you wrote:

If you don't need to use the computers simultaneously, you could partition the hard drive and set up a dual boot machine.

Or you could buy another hard disk for Vista and load it onto that.  Then you could alter your boot loader to choose XP or Vista at startup.  Google "Windows XP" +(boot.ini|boot loader) to see how to change the boot loader.  From memory, you edit a boot.ini file, but don't rely on my memory -- I don't!  It's easy to do but finding the information about what fields mean is hard.

I can triple boot into two customised varieties of Windows XP or OpenSuSe, using the Grub loader then the Windows loader.  Don't ask.

Regards,
Hedley

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