vista and xp on the same machine?Post Date: 2007-08-25 |
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Sikboy1029 
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Just curious if each OS gets their on partition, or is it done differently? I'll probably be ordering a DS system in 6 or 7 weeks and was wondering how that worked
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skyR
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Posted: 25 Aug 2007 at 11:17pm |
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Each OS should have their own partition or you going to encounter problems down the road.
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Sikboy1029
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Posted: 25 Aug 2007 at 11:26pm |
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As I thought, DS will set it up if I request it, right?
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Kelly
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Posted: 25 Aug 2007 at 11:40pm |
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Yes we would. But understand, there is a small chance that something would work great in one os, but not the other. we can't be responsible for that.
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skyR
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Posted: 25 Aug 2007 at 11:40pm |
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Yep.
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Sikboy1029
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Posted: 25 Aug 2007 at 11:47pm |
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I understand something might work well in one OS and not the other, I'm thinking of getting a 500GB hard drive and using 150GB for XP and the rest for Vista
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Kelly
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Posted: 26 Aug 2007 at 12:46am |
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is this a gaming system?
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Posted: 26 Aug 2007 at 4:24am |
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Yes, you can use both XP and Vista in the same 1 Hard Drive, and there are no any problems, also they will work fine too.
Because I'm using Windows XP Professional SP2 and Vista Ultimate 32-bit in 1 Hard Drive. |
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Sikboy1029
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Posted: 26 Aug 2007 at 11:14am |
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Yes, it will be a gaming system
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Kelly
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Posted: 26 Aug 2007 at 11:35am |
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then spend the extra cash, get yourself a 150 raptor, dual boot it with each os, (cut the raptor in half for each os partition), then get a 500GB+ for games.
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Sikboy1029
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Posted: 26 Aug 2007 at 11:40am |
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How would that work?
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Kelly
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Posted: 26 Aug 2007 at 12:42pm |
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well 2 hard drives. 1 for the OS installations and 1 for games and all your other programs.
it's an easy setup. I have 8 hdds. :P |
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Sikboy1029
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Posted: 26 Aug 2007 at 12:49pm |
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well I think the 74GB would be big enough for 2 OS installations. Just out of curiosity, why recommend a raptor hard drive to install the OS on?
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Kelly
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Posted: 26 Aug 2007 at 1:08pm |
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because, the pagefile being on the fastest drive is where your performance will be.
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Sikboy1029
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Posted: 26 Aug 2007 at 1:29pm |
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I see, so if I do decide to go with the dual drive dual boot setup I would have to install different drivers for each OS, right?
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Sikboy1029
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Posted: 26 Aug 2007 at 2:06pm |
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sounds like it could be a pain, on a completely unrelated note, would it be possible to get both a floppy drive and media card reader in my pc?
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Posted: 27 Aug 2007 at 3:07am |
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We can do it, as a special request. We don't offer it as a option because of compatibility problems.
Let us know your exactly configuration, and we will see if we can fit both a floppy drive and card reader.
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Sikboy1029
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Posted: 27 Aug 2007 at 12:34pm |
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here's the config I'm looking at, think you could do it for this one?
http://digitalstormonline.com/comploadsaved.asp?id=75906 |
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Posted: 28 Aug 2007 at 2:18am |
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Yes we can. Please ask for the special option when placing an order.
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Posted: 28 Aug 2007 at 2:05pm |
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Good to hear, haven't even ordered a system yet and I'm already enjoying the customer service
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Posted: 29 Aug 2007 at 12:20am |
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Get use to it, that's how we are.
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Posted: 29 Aug 2007 at 3:13am |
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I went a little different route in setting up my dual boot XP/Vista
Windows XP installed on it's own 150gb raptor HDD 1.
Windows Vista installed on it's own 150gb raptor HDD 2.
Data drive for apps/games of both OS on 500GB x2 in raid 0 HDD 3 & 4.
I do not like my page file on my system(OS) drive.
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36gb raptor drive partitioned into two partitions of equal size 18/18.
Setup a page file for XP on the first partition and set min and max size to 12gb 3 times the amount of ram installed.
Setup a page file for Vista on the second partition and set min and max size to 12gb 3 times the amount of ram installed.
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Kelly
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Posted: 29 Aug 2007 at 9:50am |
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I have mine:
150 Raptor partitioned - 1/2 for XP Pro, and 1/2 for Vista Ult. 300 Raptor (2x150 raid 0) for games 1 TB (2x500) for storage and apps. I may get a 32Gig Raptor for my pagefile only. Not sure yet. |
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Sikboy1029
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Posted: 29 Aug 2007 at 12:01pm |
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that sounds like it could get expensive, I'm looking to spend around $2200 or $2300
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Posted: 30 Aug 2007 at 11:32pm |
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You still can have a great system around that price. You probably have another hard drive lying around at your place which you can install later and use that as a swap file drive or to store all your stuffs. For around $2200-$2300 you can still get 2 HD or a great big one and still have enough money to build a real nice machine. |
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Sikboy1029
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Posted: 31 Aug 2007 at 9:09pm |
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do have an extra hard drive but it's junk, can't even run quake 3 engine games on it and it's only 10GB
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