Comments on: A Dual-Boot Debacle with Windows 7 and XP

By: L3B0

L3B0 — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:16:33 +0000

I think that dual booting Win7 and XP is pointless, Windows 7 RTM is as good if not better than XP and if changing over is the problem them work with it. Dual booting should be done with something like Win7 and Ubuntu, or Win7 and Mac OSX >>> Two completely different OS’s :)

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By: Sladioum

Sladioum — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:07:28 +0000

Hi. I just have a question. I had 2 partitions of my drive one having xp 32 and the other having xp 64. i whiped the xp 32 and installed windows 7 without preparing the xp and now i cant boot my xp… any ideas of how to fix it?

By: Dianne Moses

Dianne Moses — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 03:02:10 +0000

I too have successfully set up an XP/Windows 7 dual boot on a netbook, by booting from the Windows 7 DVD and a custom install on a separate partition. I wonder why it works this way for some and not others.

By: Zack Lee Wright

Zack Lee Wright — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 16:39:34 +0000

You should not even compare Vista 2.0 (aka Windows 7) with the awesome MacOSX. One is totally secure while the other is …. NOT.

By: lorddirt

lorddirt — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 11:46:03 +0000

You sure you didn’t do anything wrong while you were multitasking? because that’s what I did with my laptop when I installed win 7 beta. I had XP on 1 partition and I booted the beta ISO from a dvd and installed win 7 on the 2nd partition. XP was still intact.

Then when I got a copy of win 7 RTM, I burned the ISO again onto a DVD and installed using the DVD without booting into XP (or win 7 beta) first. When the win 7 installation fired up, I chose to format the win beta partition and installed win 7 RTM there. Again, XP was still intact afterwards

By: Philip Ferris

Philip Ferris — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 09:25:43 +0000

I can confirm xp speed with Windows 7 look and feel on this Aspire One AOA150 Netbook.

I love the feel and how everything just worked when I installed Built 7100. While I had to forgo the half price sale on Win 7, I will be buying a copy or more next year.

By: Gordon Cahill

Gordon Cahill — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 01:37:57 +0000

To get the tablrt bits it will need to be premium or better. Even if you install ultimate you can turn stuff off later.

Gordon

By: greg

greg — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:24:18 +0000

Kevin,

I also have a MSDN subscription and was wondering which version of windows 7 would be best for my Toshiba M200 tablet? I know windows 7 is suppose to be faster then Vista, but on a older notebook with 2gb of ram would it make a difference in speed if i installed Windows 7 Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional or Ultimate? Or will they all run at basically the same speed? I’d like to install ultimate, but i really don’t need all those features and if a lesser version will be faster i would rather choose that one.

Thanks.

By: HG

HG — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:15:50 +0000

Kevin, I know this is to early to ask but when you get a chance can you see how much battery life it shows on the Toshiba NB205 with Windows 7. Can’t wait to install Win 7 on my NB205.

By: JP Rowland

JP Rowland — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:45:24 +0000

I’ve been running Windows 7 RC alone on my Lenovo X60 tablet for a while, and that has definitely been my experience: XP performance with Windows 7 look and power. Perhaps even better performance than XP, given that I was able to get rid of a lot of heavy Lenovo pre-installed apps. It definitely “feels” faster and snappier. The new taskbar is perhaps even better than Mac OS X’s Dock.

Win 7 is definitely “What Vista Should Have Been”. Microsoft would sell millions if they used that slogan, but of course they won’t.