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This WindowsForum thread discusses how to run Windows XP alongside Windows 8.1, with the consensus that dual-booting on the same drive can be problematic, and instead recommending virtualization options like VirtualBox or Hyper-V for running XP. The original poster expresses interest in virtualizing XP, with replies suggesting setting up VirtualBox and adjusting display settings. The overall tone is helpful and solutions-focused, emphasizing virtualization over dual-booting for compatibility.
This WindowsForum thread discusses how to run Windows XP alongside Windows 8.1, with the consensus that dual-booting on the same drive can be problematic, and instead recommending virtualization options like VirtualBox or Hyper-V for running XP. The original poster expresses interest in virtualizing XP, with replies suggesting setting up VirtualBox and adjusting display settings. The overall tone is helpful and solutions-focused, emphasizing virtualization over dual-booting for compatibility.
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You don't put XP and 8.1 on the same drive mate, they just are too different to get along... you can have XP as a V-os installed on vmware player which will give you the graphocs card or on hyper-v which is much better at dishing out the ram/ cpu to do a task but doesn't allow access to the g-card.
Another option is multiboot where XP and 8.1 are each on a different hdd... that is do'able but I've found that the 8.1 still has boot issues when I tried it (was a while back) so I still don't recommend it.
timothy886
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if your hard drive is partitioned you can have more than 1 os on your hard drive. That is you can install one os on one partition and install another os on the other partition.
