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vista and xp o/s on same computer

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by ivorbu

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I just bought a new PC running Vista. I knew some of the programs and files from my old machine running XP would not run under Vista so I added an external hard drive to the new PC, installed XP onto that drive and then cloned the old PC's hard drive onto the external drive, but I have just discovered that I cannot boot from an external drive so Can't run XP from it. The new PC 's hard drive is 500GB but actually consists of 2x250 drives. Can I separate these two drives so that I can have different O/S on each?

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by p.j.hutchison

Yes, you can, you can use the Disk Management console to shrink your C: drive (w/o affecting data) and add a new partition to install Windows XP on it.

Use EasyBCD tool to modify the startup manager options to add XP to the menu.

by retro77

With a lot of newer machines you can enable booting from a USB drive in the BIOS. Check there to see if the option exists.

Use a boot manager to manage the booting.

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