NeedaComputer
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First of all, for anyone interested in multi booting or dual booting, read these sites. They are the best I have found:
http://www.goodells.net/multiboot/
http://www.multibooters.co.uk/multiboot.html
The "multibooters.co.uk" home site is also a great Vista resource.
I have been straining myself trying to learn the Vista boot process. My project is to multi boot Vista Basic, Home Premium, Business, and Ultimate from the same 150GB HDD. I plan on using XOSL since I had success using it with an ME/98SE Dual boot computer.
I started this thread in hopes that passive knowledge from anyone viewing it, may enter their thoughts, experience and advice on how this may be possible. I am totally open to using something other than XOSL, such as the windows bootmanager since I will only be using windows Vista.
Simplicity is the key. I have 3 different Ghost (symmantec) applications, 7, 2003, and 11 at my disposal.
One question I have at the moment is the Vista Pre-partitioning. The Vista Home Premium edition came pre-loaded on this Dell Dimension, and it has the following partition scheme according to G-Parted:
Would each install require all these partitions? I would like to install each OS independently, ghost the image, set-up the partitions, and recover the images in the newly created partitions, with a bootmanager to select each OS.
It is important that the OS's are hidden from each other, and act as if it is the only OS on the computer.
Thanks for any thoughts, I'm off to do more research.
http://www.goodells.net/multiboot/
http://www.multibooters.co.uk/multiboot.html
The "multibooters.co.uk" home site is also a great Vista resource.
I have been straining myself trying to learn the Vista boot process. My project is to multi boot Vista Basic, Home Premium, Business, and Ultimate from the same 150GB HDD. I plan on using XOSL since I had success using it with an ME/98SE Dual boot computer.
I started this thread in hopes that passive knowledge from anyone viewing it, may enter their thoughts, experience and advice on how this may be possible. I am totally open to using something other than XOSL, such as the windows bootmanager since I will only be using windows Vista.
Simplicity is the key. I have 3 different Ghost (symmantec) applications, 7, 2003, and 11 at my disposal.
One question I have at the moment is the Vista Pre-partitioning. The Vista Home Premium edition came pre-loaded on this Dell Dimension, and it has the following partition scheme according to G-Parted:
Would each install require all these partitions? I would like to install each OS independently, ghost the image, set-up the partitions, and recover the images in the newly created partitions, with a bootmanager to select each OS.
It is important that the OS's are hidden from each other, and act as if it is the only OS on the computer.
Thanks for any thoughts, I'm off to do more research.