[Ham-Computers] Dual boot problem update

[Mike]

Gene,
i missed the beginning of this thread, so my suggestion might not be suitable, but 
how about installing a Virtual Machine, and puttint the second
OS there?

VMWare Player is free, pretty easy to set up, and works well. Google for it.

73, Mike NF4L

On 11/15/2010 2:48 PM, WØQFC wrote:
> After a frustrating week of working on this problem I finially got it! HP says that they do not support a dual boot system on their machines and it will not work. . . .
>
> Some background:
>
> First, I tried adding a second hard drive and wanted to boot XP from that drive. Did not work.
>
> Second, I tried re-partitioning the original 1TB drive with two equal partitions, installing Win 7 on one and XP on the other; Win 7 would work FB but XP had a lot of freeze-ups, IE would close on it's own and several other problems.
>
> Third, the only way I could get the dual boot system to work ok was the following:
>      First, set the controller to IDE instead of AHCI.
>      Second, install the original 1TB drive as primary and
>      Third, install additional drive as secondary.
>
> Then I installed Win7 on the primary and XP on the secondary.  VIOL! It worked......
>
> BTW, the machine is a new HP 6318f.
>
> Just thought that someone might be able to use this info.
>
> 73
>
> Gene, WØQFC
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