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Installing two systems
Hi,
There's something I want to try. There's this old laptop running WinXP.
I've searched the web and some people have had problems with Win7 in this particular model, and some people haven't, so I wanna try it myself.
* There's a single hard drive.
* There are 2 partitions. One for WinXP (C:\) and one for personal data (D:\). This last partition is, of course, backed up in an external drive.
I know about the dual boot installation, but I want to do something else I have already tried, using different versions of Win7, not WinXP.
I want to:
1- Shrink D:
2- Create new partition in unformatted space
3- Hide C:
4- Install Win7 in new partition
5- Set Win7 partition as active
6- That's all.
Then, try Win7 and if it doesn't work smooth just delete it or hide the Win7 partition and set the XP one as active. All of this done with partitioning software (Partition Magic 8).
I'm not interested in the "dual boot" screen where I have to select the OS. I don't mind booting the PC with Partition Magic and hiding one OS partition and setting the other one as active.
I did check this guide: Dual Boot Installation with Windows 7 and XP
But I don't believe that's exactly what I want to do.
My question is: will something be messed up or should it work OK?
Thanks in advance.