Re: Want a HowTo for multibooting two or more Vista versions
- From: "Rick Rogers" <rick@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 06:32:18 -0400
Hi Paul,
Since you plan on using a bootloader to hide each volume from the others, you should follow the instructions given by it on how to install each operating system to its own volume. As well, most bootloaders of this nature allow you to go beyond the 4 primary limit (meaning you can create a primary for each installation) and selectively hide them from one another.
By the way, your proposal of ghosting to start fresh will likely not work the way you intend as the installation is time stamped, so that if you restore an image beyond the 30 day window, it will not function without the insertion of a licensed product key. This means every 30 days you would have to create a new installation of that version. Also, you should be aware that they are not actually trial periods. The 30 day window is there to give a user time to obtain a proper license for the chosen installation should one not be available at the time of setup. This doesn't mean it won't work, just that your use of the grace period is technically not within the licensing.
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Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
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"Paul Randall" <paulr901@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:uOZUFvN4JHA.1712@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi,
My OEM Vista installation disk allows me to install any of the 8 vista versions (Business, Business N, Enterprise, Home Basic, Home Basic N, Home Premium, Starter, and Ultimate) and use them on a 30-day trial basis when I don't enter a product key. I've tried this with the Ultimate version and it seems to work, but I have not tried the others.
I have a 320 GB hard drive available and would like to install all 8 versions as a multiboot setup, so I can more easily explore the differences between them. I think allocating 30 GB per Vista partition and any leftover space to a common logical partition available to all Vista versions should work fairly well. I've done some research, (http://www.goodells.net/multiboot/index.htmI and http://www.multibooters.co.uk and others), and I think that I can use the XOSL boot loader to boot Vista from primary partitions and logical partitions, and I think that XOSL is capable of hiding all the other Vista partitions from the one that is being booted, so that there will be no crosstalk between the Vista versions. I'm hoping that each Vista partition will be completely independent of the multiboot setup so that I can start fresh in any version by restoring that one partition from a Ghost copy. My research has found a number of very good web sites that discuss the problems and possible work-arounds for the problems, but I have not found a 'HowTo set it up' procedure.
I'm hoping someone will post a procedure to set up multi-booting for two or more versions of Vista on a single hard drive or post a URL that has that kind of procedure.
Thanks,
-Paul Randall
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