LittleGreyCat
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Firstly, thanks for all the tutorials - made life relatively straightforward.
Starting point - Windows Vista 32 bit PC and Windows 7 64 bit PC.
Bought an upgrade and downloaded Windows 8 Pro on the 64 bit machine.
Saved the install media to a .iso
Burned a DVD.
Now over to the 32 bit Vista PC.
Bought a shiny new 1TB drive and replaced the old 160GB drive which contained Vista.
Did a clean install of W8 Pro and after a refresh it accepted the product key.
So far so good
[although I have had a minor problem trying to install a 32 bit application which ran O.K. on W7 64 bit but complained it couldn't find libcairo-2.dll in W8 64 bit.]
Anyway, now to go for multiple boots
Installed Ububtu 12.04 64 bit, which give me the grub2 boot manager.
This installed O.K. and I tried booting bot W8 and Ubuntu and this worked fine.
O.K. - try using grub2 to boot Vista.
Re-fitted the 160 GB drive.
Used Parted Magic CD to set up a new NTFS partition on the end of the disc then invoked Clonezilla to clone the partition from the old drive to new.
Fired up Ubuntu and ran update-grub and now I can see the Vista partition.
However when I tried to boot Vista the system just hung with a blank black screen and a flashing cursor top left.
Further reading suggests that I was over optimistic (it is a long time since I dual booted Windows systems) and that I can't do it the way because to dual boot Windows you need one master Windows system which holds the booting details for all Windows systems to be booted.
[Trying to find the very useful article but can't ATM]
So I seem to be left with a Vista partition that I can't boot.
However as I don't have much invested in the new systems I can easily trash everything and start again.
So:
Will refreshing Windows 8 pick up the fact that there is another partition?
Will re-installing Windows 8 pick up Vista O.K.?
Or will I have to scrub the disc, clone the old disc to new and confirm Vista boots, then install Windows 8 to a partition further down the disk?
One strange thing - when I look at the options for managing the boot menu I see only one OS listed but that is Windows Vista not Windows 8.
When I look at the grub menu it correctly lists Windows 8 and Windows Vista.
Windows 8 boots fine from grub using the Windows 8 option.
So another puzzle - why is it listing the OS as Windows Vista?
The ISO was downloaded and burned under W7 64 bit.
Windows 8 was a clean install on a brand new disc.
Did the attempt to boot Vista write something to the W8 boot area?
Anyway, I'd like to be able to boot Vista for a while until I an happy that I've migrated everything to W8.
W8 seems a lot faster than Vista on the same PC (although I have a newer, more powerful HDD) and is quite useable now I have installed classic menus.
I could put the old drive back and select boot priority in the BIOS to change booting, but I would prefer to have everything on the one disc.
Also, I have plans for the old HDD.
Cheers
LGC
Starting point - Windows Vista 32 bit PC and Windows 7 64 bit PC.
Bought an upgrade and downloaded Windows 8 Pro on the 64 bit machine.
Saved the install media to a .iso
Burned a DVD.
Now over to the 32 bit Vista PC.
Bought a shiny new 1TB drive and replaced the old 160GB drive which contained Vista.
Did a clean install of W8 Pro and after a refresh it accepted the product key.
So far so good
[although I have had a minor problem trying to install a 32 bit application which ran O.K. on W7 64 bit but complained it couldn't find libcairo-2.dll in W8 64 bit.]
Anyway, now to go for multiple boots
Installed Ububtu 12.04 64 bit, which give me the grub2 boot manager.
This installed O.K. and I tried booting bot W8 and Ubuntu and this worked fine.
O.K. - try using grub2 to boot Vista.
Re-fitted the 160 GB drive.
Used Parted Magic CD to set up a new NTFS partition on the end of the disc then invoked Clonezilla to clone the partition from the old drive to new.
Fired up Ubuntu and ran update-grub and now I can see the Vista partition.
However when I tried to boot Vista the system just hung with a blank black screen and a flashing cursor top left.
Further reading suggests that I was over optimistic (it is a long time since I dual booted Windows systems) and that I can't do it the way because to dual boot Windows you need one master Windows system which holds the booting details for all Windows systems to be booted.
[Trying to find the very useful article but can't ATM]
So I seem to be left with a Vista partition that I can't boot.
However as I don't have much invested in the new systems I can easily trash everything and start again.
So:
Will refreshing Windows 8 pick up the fact that there is another partition?
Will re-installing Windows 8 pick up Vista O.K.?
Or will I have to scrub the disc, clone the old disc to new and confirm Vista boots, then install Windows 8 to a partition further down the disk?
One strange thing - when I look at the options for managing the boot menu I see only one OS listed but that is Windows Vista not Windows 8.
When I look at the grub menu it correctly lists Windows 8 and Windows Vista.
Windows 8 boots fine from grub using the Windows 8 option.
So another puzzle - why is it listing the OS as Windows Vista?
The ISO was downloaded and burned under W7 64 bit.
Windows 8 was a clean install on a brand new disc.
Did the attempt to boot Vista write something to the W8 boot area?
Anyway, I'd like to be able to boot Vista for a while until I an happy that I've migrated everything to W8.
W8 seems a lot faster than Vista on the same PC (although I have a newer, more powerful HDD) and is quite useable now I have installed classic menus.
I could put the old drive back and select boot priority in the BIOS to change booting, but I would prefer to have everything on the one disc.
Also, I have plans for the old HDD.
Cheers
LGC
My Computer
System One
-
- OS
- Windows Vista 32 bit
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Dell XPS M1530
- CPU
- Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz
- Memory
- 4Gb
- Graphics Card(s)
- NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT
- Mouse
- Logitech ball scroll mouse
- Internet Speed
- 30 Mb/sec