1 hard drive 2 OS'sPost Date: 2008-05-23 |
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paintballakid5
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Topic: 1 hard drive 2 OS's Posted: 23 May 2008 at 11:07am |
ok so i got my computer(yay). and i got 1 320GB HDD and i'm curious will that work well with 2 OS's on it? its at 7200RPM's,, will that work well? cuz my bro has vista on 1 HDD, and XP on the other...
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Bigdog
Senior Member Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 450 |
Quote Reply Posted: 23 May 2008 at 4:44pm |
I am pretty sure it will. What DSO did to my rig was split the 150GB raptor which I think you would want to do. So I had like 60 or so GIGS on one and 60 or so GBS on another. Vista on one half and XP on the other half. split
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Processor: QX6850 (3.3Ghz)
RAM: 4GB 1066 Dominators Graphics: 2x 8800GTX 768MB Sound Card: Fatal1ty HDD 1: 2x 150GB raptor (RAID 0) HDD 2: 1x 150GB raptor HDD 3: 320GB western Liquid cooling (red) |
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Randy
Newbie Digital Storm Customer Service Joined: 14 May 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 221 |
Quote Reply Posted: 07 Jun 2008 at 9:31pm |
The hard-drive can handle that no problems. You will have to partition the drive into 2 separate partitions. Which you can do in the windows installation. Im running Dual boot with Ubuntu linux and Vista ultimate 32bit.
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Sarah
Newbie Hardcore Gamer Joined: 07 Jun 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 879 |
Quote Reply Posted: 07 Jun 2008 at 9:43pm |
As Randy mentioned, that is defienetly possible on your hard drive, and if you have any questions about it, or need any help, your more then welcome to give us a call, or ask further questions here, as we would be more then happy to help you out.
-Sarah Edited by Sarah - 07 Jun 2008 at 9:45pm |
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Alex
Admin Group Digital Storm Supervisor Joined: 04 Jun 2012 Online Status: Offline Posts: 16314 |
Quote Reply Posted: 07 Jun 2008 at 9:46pm |
Glad to see our staff active on the forums during the weekend.
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workingman
Senior Member Joined: 05 Apr 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 411 |
Quote Reply Posted: 10 Jun 2008 at 5:36am |
I'm just curious...is the file system in xp you are using on the split os fat 32 ot ntfs...cause i got a copy of xp for my new rig..and it suggests i use fat 32 if i have two os's on my hard drive...just wondering
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Randy
Newbie Digital Storm Customer Service Joined: 14 May 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 221 |
Quote Reply Posted: 14 Jun 2008 at 8:54pm |
Hi workingman,
Well I would use ntfs and heres why. http://searchwincomputing.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid68_gci1179332,00.html :) Randy |
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!ender_
DS Veteran Joined: 24 Oct 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 4219 |
Quote Reply Posted: 18 Jun 2008 at 10:47pm |
harley you really do have a lot of time on your hands dont you
go get on that chopper and enjoy the weather!
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