Re: Want a HowTo for multibooting two or more Vista versions
- From: Night Hawk <guest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 13:57:55 -0500
Paul Randall;1054127 Wrote:
"Night Hawk" <guest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Paul Randall;1053931 Wrote:> > > > >
vistaHi,
My OEM Vista installation disk allows me to install any of the 8
N,versions (Business, Business N, Enterprise, Home Basic, Home Basic
(http://www.multibooters.co.uk)) and others), and I think that I can useHome
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
'Multibooters - Dual/Multi Booting With Vista'
('Multibooters - Dual/Multi Booting With Vista'
nothe
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
copy.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
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> > > >
There isn't any guide to be found to start with. You can only
primary type partitions on any single hard drive. You bets optionwould
be creating several virtual hard drives and see each editioninstalled
on Virtual PC 2007. The limitations seen there would be on thetotal
amount of drive space not how many drives can be created. 'How toCreate
a Virtual Machine in Windows Virtual PC'(http://digg.com/microsoft/How_to_Create_a_Virtual_Machine_in_Windows_Virtual_PC))
('How to Create a Virtual Machine in Windows Virtual PC'
Thanks for your input. I agree that Virtual PC 2007 may be a good way
to do
what I want, although my computer only has one GB of memory. I will
try
that.
While it is true that one can only create 4 primary partitions using
standard partitioning, I don't think that should limit what I want to
do.
One of the URLs I referenced (or some URL they reference) talked
about a
multiboot system like this (easier to read with a fixed pitch font):
Boot option-> DOS Win98 Win2000 WinXP Alt98
Pri-1: C: hidden hidden hidden hidden
Pri-2: hidden C: hidden hidden hidden
Pri-3: hidden hidden hidden C: hidden
Log-1: hidden hidden C: hidden hidden
Log-2: hidden hidden hidden hidden C:
Log-3: D: D: D: D: D:
Log-4: E: E: E: E: E:
The only non-standard thing about this multiboot setup was the use of
XOSL,
which is capabale of both hiding and activating both primary and
logical
drives. I have set up multiboot WXP systems that were installed to
logical
partitions, but at that time I had not heard of XOSL to
hide/de-activate all
other install patitions. I think I just need more info on how to get
around Vista's obsession with writing its own MBR on some drive of
its
choice during installation and how to make it think it is where it
should be
during boots to that Vista installation.
The bare minimum for Vista to start with without various programs
installed is the 512mb minimum. As for comparing editions the Starter is
limited there to 3 programs and not listed on the compare editions page
for Vista seen at
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/compare-editions/default.aspx
The differences between editions are not visible so much at the desktop
but what each will or won't support as well as various features. When
testing an idea out here I saw Vista Home Premium installed to a second
virtual drive on the new Virtual PC beta available for the Windows 7
RCs.
To prevent the new XP mode from starting up automatically I created a
desktop shortcut to the Vista "vmc" file which you simply double clicked
for Vista. With multiple editions on more then one drive you could use a
shortcut for each edition as an OS selector.
You would need to have one of the Windows 7 RCs installed normally to
your main drive however to make that work where you can then see each
edition on separate virtual drives with a desktop shortcut to each
without seeing the limitations imposed by hiding one partition in order
to run one of the others on a partition made active. Each would be
available one at a time.
--
Night Hawk
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