Dual Boot XP Pro x32 & XP Pro x64?

T-LAM-CT-LAM-C The Old-English "D"
edited September 2006 in Science & Tech
Hello, all, Im wondering if I can dual boot my winXP Pro x32 OS with my new AWinXP Pro x64 OS, and if so can they both be on the same HD (Partitioned) or must they be on seperate HDs?
My system currently is:
Athlon64 3200+ (@ 2.4GHz)
2x 120 GB Maxtor SATA HDs each partitioned to 60 GB
Disc1 C: WinXP Pro x32
Disc1 D: Is Free
Disc2 G: Extra Storage
Disc2 H: Is Free
2x 512 MB OCZ Ultra Performace PC3200 Dual Channel
XFX GeForce 6600GT 128MB AGP

Comments

  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited May 2005
    Yes it will work fine. They would be best in differant partitions. Not necessary to make it seperate disks. But I have done it even just in seperate directories on the same partition.

    Tex
  • T-LAM-CT-LAM-C The Old-English "D"
    edited May 2005
    Tex, thank you for your help, I now have my WinXP Pro x32 on my C: 1st partition and my WinXP Pro x64 on C: 2nd partition. I havent run into any problems as of yet and I can select any OS at will. I am running 2 x 120 Maxtor SATA HD's no RAID configuration. The other 120 is partitioned into G: and H: because I had my DVD ROM (E:) and DVD-RW (F:) already installed.
    All is well so far and thanx again for your help!
  • ronboronbo Connecticut
    edited July 2005
    Now that I know that I can dual boot from one HD, can I dual boot from seperate HD's?
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited July 2005
    sure
  • indigoflow_asindigoflow_as Westerville, OH
    edited July 2005
    Now i have a question about relating to this...

    say i have XP x32 on one HDD and then XP x64 on another....i still have access to the files on the x32 HDD when i boot the x64 HDD, correct? likely a common sense question but i thought id make sure before i tried it.
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited July 2005
    Uhhhh.. Sure

    Tex
  • jimmya11jimmya11
    edited September 2005
    General install problem for dual booting.

    I have ASUS A8V motherboard, AMD x64 3400+
    1 gig memory
    160 gig hard drive, partition 50, 50, 58\
    2nd drive of 250 gig unformatted at this time.
    I have loaded WinXP 32 successfully on the 1st partition 'c:' drive

    I have setup my BIOS to boot from Disk, floppy, than harddrive.
    When attempting to install WinXP x64 on the second partition, the BIOS or operating system does not read the CD and ask to Boot from CD, just goes straight onto the WinXP 32 system and starts up.
    What am I doing wrong?
    thanks for any help
    Jim
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited September 2005
    The xp 64 cd you made from the download isnt bootable.

    Tex
  • ronboronbo Connecticut
    edited September 2005
    Tex is 100% right. If your first boot is disk then your computer should not load up your windows 32 bit, which is in your 3rd boot order. The computer is not seeing your Windows 64 bit because it is not on a bootable disk.
  • jimmya11jimmya11
    edited September 2005
    Tex wrote:
    The xp 64 cd you made from the download isnt bootable.

    Tex

    Tex,

    Before I loaded the XP32 on this computer, I loaded the x64 on the same computer just fine. But I was told for dual booting purposes, that you have to load the earlier version (WinXP 32bit) before loading the latest version (WinXP x64). So I reformatted the drive, loaded WinXP 32bit, then attempted to load the WinXP x64, it just would not load, it skipped the CD and went straight to the WinXP32 that was already loaded.
    Jim
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited September 2005
    Make sure your cdrom drive is set as the first boot device, then watch the bottom of the screen carefully as you restart the computer. You're looking for a message saying "Press any key to boot from CD".

    That may or may not help, but sometimes it's the little things... :D
  • RED32webbRED32webb
    edited November 2005
    Idigo_as only has one problem, i did it to he copyed the files strait to the disk and did not use a program to burn the iso on to the disk it misses the boot portion of the install
  • RED32webbRED32webb
    edited November 2005
    My question is on my second partition i get windows root\system32\ntoskrnl.exe is bad or missing error and it woulnt load in to 64 side now and i dont know where to find the file or if i can copy the xp version over to the 64 side to replace it? any takers on that subject
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited November 2005
    RED32webb, could you give us some more details? :)
  • sseylersseyler New York
    edited November 2005
    Hi,

    I am running x32 Pro OS

    Hardware Config:

    AMD Athlon 64 3000+
    1 Gig Dual channel RAM
    Asus A8N-E mobo
    120GB SATA150 HD

    I downloaded x64 from the microsoft website and burned it to a CD.

    Is there any way I can at this point, without losing data on my HD, in which I can get a dual boot setup for both x32 and x64.

    Please walk me through the necessary steps to do this :D.


    Thank You
  • abels28abels28
    edited September 2006
    I have bought a new machine that has XP 64 pro already on it. It has 2 hard drives. I would like to load XP pro 32 on the other hard drive but apparently my CD is not bootable and when I put the CD in when i am in XP 64, the option to install Windows is dithered out. I did a little bit of digging and found out that this is saying that there is a newer version of Windows already installed. Is there a way to make the CD bootable or force windows to allow me to install anyway? Any help would be greatly appreciated because i don't really want to mess with the factory OS.
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