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wondering if you could give me some advice about dual booting?
Hello everyone, I was wondering if you could give me some advice. I currently have my dell laptop running Windows 7 Home Premium x64 and I would like to dual boot it with Windows XP x32. Right now I have 3 partitions in my HDD, a 39 MB OEM Partition (I don't know what's it for), a Recovery Partition (System, Active, Primary Partition) and my OS partition (Boot, Paging, Dumping, Primary Partition). My questions are:
Will doing the whole dual boot procedure prevent me from using Hibernation? I read somewhere else (I don't remember where) that dual booting could mess the hibernation process.
My laptop came with a recovery partition and it has an option to enter a Recovery Menu when pressing F8 during boot without using my Windows Installation DVD. I don't know if this is an option every Windows 7 has or if it's something dell added. I also read that if you mess with the MBR you could prevent the computer from finding this "Recovery Menu" option. I don't really understand much about the MBR and I don't know if EasyBCD rewrites everything or just adds a new entry without changing the current entries.