invisible12
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- May 5, 2009
Hello,
I heard that Windows 7 runs pretty good on systems a few years old, so I thought I'd give it a try for the heck of it on mine. I'd like to dual boot with XP, with XP still being the primary OS I use. At some point, whether it's a couple weeks later if I end up not liking it, or in March when it starts shutting down every 2 hours, I'd like to delete it. I'd like to put them both on the same drive, and resize my current partition and make a new one...I've read a page on how to do this. My questions are...what risk will this pose with my XP installation? How much of a risk is there that I could corrupt my primary partition? Another concern is about the drivers...what issues could that pose? Also, when I go to delete it, will it be just a simple delete the partition and resize the XP one again to cover the rest of the drive? Will there be a possibility of screwups with the master boot record?
Thank you!
I heard that Windows 7 runs pretty good on systems a few years old, so I thought I'd give it a try for the heck of it on mine. I'd like to dual boot with XP, with XP still being the primary OS I use. At some point, whether it's a couple weeks later if I end up not liking it, or in March when it starts shutting down every 2 hours, I'd like to delete it. I'd like to put them both on the same drive, and resize my current partition and make a new one...I've read a page on how to do this. My questions are...what risk will this pose with my XP installation? How much of a risk is there that I could corrupt my primary partition? Another concern is about the drivers...what issues could that pose? Also, when I go to delete it, will it be just a simple delete the partition and resize the XP one again to cover the rest of the drive? Will there be a possibility of screwups with the master boot record?
Thank you!