Vista 32 and 64 bit dual boot ElHombre86 <guest[ at ]unknown-email.com> 10/24/2008 7:36:32 PM Hi, I have Vista 32 bit installed on my system and was wondering how do I go about setting a dual boot with Vista 64 bit, so that I can choose either OS at boot. I have a 500 gb hard drive and plan on using 100 or more for the partition. Any ideas? Virtual machines are not an option! Oh, and I do have two Vista licenses. -- ElHombre86

Re: Vista 32 and 64 bit dual boot "Paul Smith" <Paul[ at ]nospam.windowsresource.net> 10/24/2008 8:08:23 PM "ElHombre86" <guest[ at ]unknown-email.com> wrote in message news:06bdd42d5d7acd783082a0883e2394d8[ at ]nntp-gateway.com... [Quoted Text] > > Hi, I have Vista 32 bit installed on my system and was wondering how do > I go about setting a dual boot with Vista 64 bit, so that I can choose > either OS at boot. I have a 500 gb hard drive and plan on using 100 or > more for the partition. Any ideas? Virtual machines are not an option! > Oh, and I do have two Vista licenses. If you just have the one hard drive, with one large partition, assuming you've got the space you can go into Disk Management (within Computer Management in Administrative Tools), and right click on the particular hard drive and select shrink volume. The amount you can shrink depends on what sectors are where on the hard drive, not all data can be moved, and even though you may have for example 200GB free on the drive, you may only be able to shrink the volume by say 100GB. Once its finished shrinking the partition, (it may take some time) you can create a new partition from Disk Management using the empty space. Once that's done you can boot from the 64-bit disc, and install 64-bit into the new partition. -- Paul Smith, Yeovil, UK. Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience. http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/ http://www.windowsresource.net/ *Remove nospam. to reply by e-mail*

Re: Vista 32 and 64 bit dual boot SCSIraidGURU <guest[ at ]unknown-email.com> 10/24/2008 9:05:59 PM C: is primary partition for Vista 32 bit, 40GB + total RAM. D: can be extended logical for Vista x64. 40GB + total RAM. Personally, I would just do Vista x64 unless you have 16 bit apps. -- SCSIraidGURU Michael A. McKenney 'www.SCSIraidGURU.com' (http://www.SCSIraidGURU.com)

Re: Vista 32 and 64 bit dual boot ElHombre86 <guest[ at ]unknown-email.com> 10/25/2008 2:38:01 AM Paul Smith;869918 Wrote: > "ElHombre86" <guest[ at ]xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message > news:06bdd42d5d7acd783082a0883e2394d8[ at ]xxxxxx-gateway.com...> > > > > > > > > Hi, I have Vista 32 bit installed on my system and was wondering how > > do > > > I go about setting a dual boot with Vista 64 bit, so that I can > > choose > > > either OS at boot. I have a 500 gb hard drive and plan on using 100 > > or > > > more for the partition. Any ideas? Virtual machines are not an > > option! > > > Oh, and I do have two Vista licenses. > > > > If you just have the one hard drive, with one large partition, > assuming > you've got the space you can go into Disk Management (within Computer > Management in Administrative Tools), and right click on the > particular hard > drive and select shrink volume. > > The amount you can shrink depends on what sectors are where on the > hard > drive, not all data can be moved, and even though you may have for > example > 200GB free on the drive, you may only be able to shrink the volume by > say > 100GB. > > Once its finished shrinking the partition, (it may take some time) > you can > create a new partition from Disk Management using the empty space. > > Once that's done you can boot from the 64-bit disc, and install > 64-bit into > the new partition. > > -- > Paul Smith, > Yeovil, UK. > Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience. > 'Paul Smith's Blog' (http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/) > 'The Windows Resource' (http://www.windowsresource.net/) > > *Remove nospam. to reply by e-mail* Thanks for the reply. By doing this, will I be given the choice of either OS at boot? Also, will I loose any data by shrinking my hard drive? -- ElHombre86

Re: Vista 32 and 64 bit dual boot "Paul Smith" <Paul[ at ]nospam.windowsresource.net> 10/25/2008 9:50:42 AM "ElHombre86" <guest[ at ]unknown-email.com> wrote in message news:0d566f136b03f6363b4428c205e0c23f[ at ]nntp-gateway.com... [Quoted Text] > Thanks for the reply. By doing this, will I be given the choice of > either OS at boot? Yes, when you install Windows Vista on the new partition, it will see the other copy and setup a boot loader that let's you select which to boot at start up. > Also, will I loose any data by shrinking my hard drive? Nope. -- Paul Smith, Yeovil, UK. Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience. http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/ http://www.windowsresource.net/ *Remove nospam. to reply by e-mail*

Re: Vista 32 and 64 bit dual boot ElHombre86 <guest[ at ]unknown-email.com> 10/25/2008 3:08:18 PM Thanks for the replies, I will try it out as soon as I can. -- ElHombre86