Recent content by Nightflyer

yea right ...I wasn't getting any where cause w7 and w8 wanted to delete the xp install when I boot from dvd and run as normal...I will do that later and I see how you did it

did you manually create the partitions ?

there may be different rules for single drive installs I just looked at my xp drive and xp does not create a system partition your windows 7 should have created a 100 mb system partition and w8 must have resized it...my article is about mutli - drive installs... if you loose the system partition...

yes you can do that but the system I see is a w8 system partition. that's why you can do that by making and installing the other OS's on different partitions,,, if you loose that system partition, you loose all os's. if the w8 install fudges and you have to reinstall I am not sure if you will...

yes there are other ways to duel boot including a drive with multiple partitions and os's installed on each but that brings up numerous headaches that come when one of the os's fudges or even one of the partitions fudges... I did this cause I believe its the easiest way to duel boot with the...

Rules for Duel booting in windows 8 and windows 7 and other Tips The following is derived from watching the behavior of windows 8 and 7 installs. When you install windows 8 or windows 7 to a new HDD it wants to create more than one partition... On a 2 TB hdd W8 will create a 350 MB system...