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  1. Posts : 24
    windows xp professional
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    multiple operating systems


    hi how many operating systems can i run. at present i have windows 7 ultimate 32 bit running on my d/partition its 200gb in size. i also have windows xp sp3 home edition on c/drive.i also have E/partition on my pc its 220gb in size. my pc is capable of running windows 7 ultimate 64bit. i have 3GB memory [ram] my pc has amd sempron[tm]processor 3000 plus 1.8ghz. ive heard of a free program called VMware does anyone else have multiple operating systems running on there desktop pcs thank you
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  2. Posts : 11,408
    ME/XP/Vista/Win7
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    Each OS will need a partition, as you say,you have three partitions, OS = three.
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  3. Posts : 24
    windows xp professional
    Thread Starter
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    yes thats right i have c/drive windows xp sp3 is on it it is 20GB in size with 12GB left.on my D/partition im running windows 7 ultimate 32 bit.i purchased windows 7 ultimate 64bit last week im going too run this on my E/partion and do a clean install would this be possible too do this any help much appreciated
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  4. Posts : 11,408
    ME/XP/Vista/Win7
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    If your PC is 64bit, yes.
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  5. Posts : 24
    windows xp professional
    Thread Starter
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    ok thanks for all your help i will install windows 7 ultimate 64bit on my E/partition
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  6. Posts : 11,408
    ME/XP/Vista/Win7
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    You are welcome.
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  7. Posts : 968
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
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    jimjo16 said:
    hi how many operating systems can i run. at present i have windows 7 ultimate 32 bit running on my d/partition its 200gb in size. i also have windows xp sp3 home edition on c/drive.i also have E/partition on my pc its 220gb in size. my pc is capable of running windows 7 ultimate 64bit. i have 3GB memory [ram] my pc has amd sempron[tm]processor 3000 plus 1.8ghz. ive heard of a free program called VMware does anyone else have multiple operating systems running on there desktop pcs thank you

    VMWare needs a good amount of ram to run sufficiently. I don't know exactly what a good amount of ram is or should I say the least you can get by with but 3gb seems to be cutting it a little slim. You might hang on a lot of operations.
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  8. whs
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    Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8
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    Rather than VMWare I would recommend Virtual Box. I run Ubuntu in vBox on a 3GB system. I allocated 1 GB to vBox. Runs really well and practically as fast as my native Win7.

    The big advantage is that I can run Ubuntu and Win7 in paralell and switch back and forth without doing anything special - with the guest additions activated.

    As an example, this is a snip of part of the Ubuntu full screen window that I took with a Win7 snipping tool:
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  9. Posts : 24
    windows xp professional
    Thread Starter
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    hi whs thanks for reply is virtual box a freeware program is there tutorials on this program
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  10.    #10

    Are those driver letters fixed or does the OS you are booted into always show as C as it should?

    If not, you apparently didn't boot Win7 to install it but ran it from XP which was already holding C and thus blocked it's use by Win7.

    In the future, always boot the installer to install an OS so when booted into it on a multi-boot it will show as C. You must do this anyway to install a different bit-version, of course.
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