February 20, 201214 yr Commercial Member Building an additional PC and want this one to be a Win7/WinXP dual boot system. Done some research but have a few questions for those who have done it.1) Is it easier to install Win XP first then Install Win7, or Win7 1st and Win XP 2nd?2) Was thinking to install Win7 on SATA drive and WinXP on seperate EIDE drive. Good? bad? Or should both be on same hard drive?3) Possible to set up only one copy of flight simulator to use with both systems or do I need two installs, one for each OS?Thx,Clutch Edited February 20, 201214 yr by Clutch Cargo Intel i9-12900KF, Asus Prime Z690-A MB, 64GB DDR5 6000 RAM, (3) SK hynix M.2 SSD (2TB ea.), 16TB Seagate HDD, Gigabyte GeForce 5080 RTX, Corsair iCUE H70i AIO Liquid Cooler, UHD/Blu-ray Player/Burner (still have lots of CDs, DVDs!) Windows 10, (hold off for now on Win11), EVGA 1300W PSUNetgear 1Gbps modem & router, (3) 27" 1440 wrap-around displaysFull array of Bravo, Saitek and GoFlight hardware for the cockpit. Varjo and HP VR headsets for mixed reality.
February 20, 201214 yr HelloXP first as W7 will then add XP to its own boot menu, allowing you the choice of OS at boot timehttp://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/8057-dual-boot-installation-windows-7-xp.htmlOr get a really nice boot manager http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootit-bare-metal.htm
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