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Dual Booting Between 32 bit and 64 bit OS

  • 16-01-2009 2:46pm
    #1
    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,243 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Is this possible?

    Looking at the Windows 7 OS and wouldnt mind giving the 64 bit one a go. Currently have Vista Ultimate 32bit installed. Is it possible to dual boot these?


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  • #2
    leninbenjamin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,983 ✭✭✭leninbenjamin


    kearnsr wrote: »
    Is this possible?

    Looking at the Windows 7 OS and wouldnt mind giving the 64 bit one a go. Currently have Vista Ultimate 32bit installed. Is it possible to dual boot these?

    yes. I'm doing that already.


  • #3
    byte
    Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,158 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    leninbenjamin wrote: »
    yes. I'm doing that already.
    In that case, I presume it's possible to dual boot with Ultimate x64 and Win7 x64?


  • #4
    ethernet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,568 ✭✭✭ethernet


    byte wrote: »
    In that case, I presume it's possible to dual boot with Ultimate x64 and Win7 x64?
    There's no technical reason not as long as you have the hard drive space. Just be careful with partitioning!

    A handy way would be to resize your Vista partition from Vista itself (Computer Management --> Disk Management). Defrag it before resizing. If you run into problems, run a fsck on the disk as well. After this (and precious backup committed to some other media), boot from the 7 DVD and proceed with installation. 7 will detect Vista and add both OSes to your boot loader.


  • #5
    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,243 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    leninbenjamin wrote: »
    yes. I'm doing that already.

    How do you do it? Any guides?


  • #6
    Epic Tissue
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,015 ✭✭✭Epic Tissue


    I used a gparted live cd to do my partition. You download gparted and burn it to a disc, boot it up and then partition and make the new space nfts. Then just boot into thw win7 disc


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