Win 8 and XP same computer questions

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stephen97

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I have a new computer built all ready and want to have Windows 8 and Windows XP operating on the same computer station.

I have two hard drives available to use:

a:) 1.5 t drive
b:) 500 gig drive

Question is will I get better results putting both OS on same drive or putting Win 8 on the larger drive and XP on the smaller drive?

I use XP to run older games and flight sims designed for best performance on XP.

Thanks.....Steve!
 
Partition your 500GB drive into two and install XP on one partition (make sure you install XP first - always install older OS first!) and 8 on the other.

Keep 1.5TB disk as storage that both OSes can access, though I'm not sure if XP can read disks that big.
 
RoseBerry said:
Seperate since OS uses up much of the memory.
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Ignore this. Doesn't make any sense.

As Spirit says, its better to put the two (2) OS on the smaller drive and use the other drive as storage. Another benefit is you can put the page files for each OS on the storage drive as well, vastly improving OS performance.

Secondly, if you install Win XP first followed by Win 8 you shouldn't have to worry about the boot, however if you do get issues, simply download BCDEdit and in 20 seconds you can configure the boot order, times and menu.
 
Okedokey said:
Ignore this. Doesn't make any sense.

As Spirit says, its better to put the two (2) OS on the smaller drive and use the other drive as storage. Another benefit is you can put the page files for each OS on the storage drive as well, vastly improving OS performance.

Secondly, if you install Win XP first followed by Win 8 you shouldn't have to worry about the boot, however if you do get issues, simply download BCDEdit and in 20 seconds you can configure the boot order, times and menu.
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That was miss fluffy so yeah ignore it.
 
By default if you install XP first and then 8 (as you should), when you get to the Windows Boot Manager screen (whilst you are booting your computer) you'll likely see Windows 8 and 'Earlier Version of Windows' [XP]. As Okedokey said, you can use software to change that to say 'Windows XP'. EasyBCD was the one I used to use back when I dual-booted operating systems.

I've never tried to dual-boot 8 with anything but when I dual-booted XP and Vista you used to get a Windows Boot Manager screen like the one I described. Not sure if you will with 8 or not because they changed a lot of stuff.
 
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