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Installing XP professional
Hello Friends,
Q: The college (ITT) I'm attending has a program allowing students to download for free, the programs we'll need for classes. The OS's we need are there also which is really a help financially.
I have vista already, and a friend got rid of a computer which gave me a second hard drive which I installed. I wiped it clean and downloaded a OS from the instrutions given to us on how to do this. There's a long download followed by an unpacking, then a request to burn an image and reinsert the disc to install. We we're given our key at the beginning of the download and are ask for it now. I installed 7 on the clean hard drive which I named j: and was successful. A few days later, I needed to download and install Xp professional. I partitioned the drive and proceeded to do the same as with 7. Combatability issues blocking the installation occurred and from what I've read, it's boot related and I should of installed Xp first. Is this true?
Also, being that two OS's are on the same drive... does that mean both have to bootup (duel boot) and run, even if there on seperate partitions?
I think the reason I'm given the option to boot vista, or 7 at startup is because thier on two different drives. Hoping this could still be the case with two OS's on the same drive but on separate partitions.
Your help would be very welcome...
Simono