Dual boot on an existing XP machine

mike cox

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Hello,
I have a Win. XP machine. The Blackmagic hardware that I am installing wants to be in a Win. 7 64 bit machine.
Can I make this a dual boot machine?

Mike Cox
 

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I did this a couple of months ago. I dual boot using a 2nd hard drive.

First enter the win 7 control panel > all control panel items > backup and restore
to create a win 7 backup before you attempt to dual boot your pc.

Use the following URLs to find help guides and utilities

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/8057-dual-boot-installation-windows-7-xp.html

http://neosmart.net/EasyBCD/
Dual-boot with anything you could want.

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/window-on-windows/convert-windows-xp-into-a-windows-7-virtual-machine-with-disk2vhd/3091

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415
Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk - Microsoft's Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/8054/how-to-turn-a-physical-computer-into-a-virtual-machine-with-disk2vhd/

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx

I did run into a problem getting my original xp to load in my win 7 virtual pc. Somewhere in these URLs is a statement the multiple core cpus do not play well with virtual pc and disk2vhd, I have a dual core processor.

I use norton for my pc security and had to contact them to get the permission to use my existing copy with both operating systems