How do you install windows7 and windows xp in one PC?

Answer 1

I have accomplished this on my computer because I bought a second hard drive for the purpose of a backup along with additional space. However, the Maxtor hard drive that I bought had a floppy disk that came with it which had several functions ranging from hard drive setup to diagnostics to partitioning and image copy. The image copy feature is what allowed me to take a snapshot of my primary drive and format and copy it to my secondary drive, overwritng any existing files you may I had on it. You do, however, need to be aware that software and system conflicts can arise by running two sets of Windows XP on the same computer at the same time, albeit they're on two separate drives. That's why I prefer to do this ONLY to use the second drive as a backup, not as a supplement. If you need a second hard drive simply to supplement your primary drive for added disk space purposes, I wouldn't recommend putting the full operating system on it. Just leave it as is and use the free space as needed with your primary.

Answer 2

You can't. If your computer has multiple hard drives you need to designate one as a master and the other as a slave. The master (or main hard drive) stores and uses the preferrred operating system while the slave serves as primarily data storage. If you put even the same operating system on the hard drives the computer will either hang or crash because it will try to run "multiple instances" of the operating system because it cant differentiate which drive is the master and which is slave regardless of how they are hooked up. The same holds true for using different operating systems on the same machine (Vista and XP). Choose which operating system you really want, install it on the master hard drive, and designate the other as a slave (with NO operating system files on it whatsoever) - its the only way to do it. In order to use both XP and Vista you need two separate computers.

Answer 3

Yes, you can install Windows and Linux on one hard-drive - known as dual-booting. Install Windows first, then secondly, install your choice of Linux - Ubuntu, Linux Mint, being popular distributions.

Answer 4

I'd just like to say first off, it's very nice to see people trying out Linux! Hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

Basically, you just Install Windows on one drive, then install Linux on the other. Both drives have to be attatched to the computer. Then insert your Windows or Linux installation CD, and install like you normally would, except select the drive to install onto as the other hard drive. With Linux, you can use the LILO bootloader or GRUB bootloader to select between windows and your Linux distro. The installation for your distro should have an option to do this, when it asks you to setup your Bootloader.

Additionally you may want to look up detailed instructions on how to setup LILO or GRUB to dual boot with windows. I would say just put "dual boot linux windows" into a search engine, there will be plenty of detailed instructions.

Answer 5

There are at least two choices. First one is create two partitions one for Windows Xp another one is for Windows 7. Install first Xp and then Seven in another partition. Another one is to use Windows Xp Virtual Machine which allows you to run Windows Xp and Seven in the same time.

Or if you have two Hardrives you can install Xp in one and windows7 on the other.

Answer 6

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