How to boot Win7, Win10 and WinXP on the same HDD?

Rafael Mestdag · Aug 20, 2015

I have a 500GB HDD with 2 partitions, one has Win7, the main one has Win10. What should I do in order to boot WinXP as well on the same HDD? The last time I tried this I had to format my HDD as a result, that's why I'm afraid to do it again. What exactly should I do?

boosted1g · Aug 20, 2015

You have to have each OS on its own partition.

So you will need to use easus partition software to shrink one of your partitions and then create a new one for XP.

The other problem you are going to run into though is that your hard drive is likely setup as GPT now that it has windows 10 on it; windows XP only works with MBR as it has no native support for booting a GPT disk.

In all reality you will need a separate hard drive to have windows 8 or 10 AND windows XP on the same computer.

Rafael Mestdag · Aug 20, 2015

boosted1g :

Is there a way for me to determine which system my HDD is setup as(GPT or MBR)?

boosted1g · Aug 20, 2015

Go into disk management and it will show you on the far left side of the info for the disk drive.

Don't know about windows 10, but if you right click on My Computer and go to manage it will take you disk management, otherwise you can search for it

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How to boot Win7, Win10 and WinXP on the same HDD?

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