Received the 180 day Trial version in the mail today

Time to play.

I guess a clean install is the way to go.
I have 32 bit on one HDD and the x64 bit Beta on another HDD .

Andre
Mon May 16 18:01:59 CDT 2005

Why not create a new partition and boot from the XP Pro x64 cd and install
it on the newly created partition?--

Andre
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"Gary Ritter MCSE" <kc5md@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> Time to play.
>
> I guess a clean install is the way to go.
> I have 32 bit on one HDD and the x64 bit Beta on another HDD .
>

joscon
Tue May 17 06:24:46 CDT 2005

I agree, I use a dual boot myself at home, 32bit for things without drivers
or apps that havent been updated, x64 for all my games, stuff I do day to
day, etc. Works fine.

Just make sure you have it in a totally separate partition.

Roy
Tue May 17 09:49:09 CDT 2005

Joseph Conway [MSFT] wrote:
> I agree, I use a dual boot myself at home, 32bit for things without drivers
> or apps that havent been updated, x64 for all my games, stuff I do day to
> day, etc. Works fine.
>
> Just make sure you have it in a totally separate partition.
>
Unfortunately, the system files for all Windows installations are on
C: - so there is no total separation.

Roy

Rick
Tue May 17 10:10:19 CDT 2005

Not true at all. Windows XP and x64 can use any drive letter as their
home/boot drive. It has been mentioned in this forum that one person's
x64 booted to H: drive. I have had several different home/boot letters
depending on my hardware at the time of installation.

DOS is the OS that will only install to C: drive as a home/boot drive.


Roy Coorne wrote:
> Unfortunately, the system files for all Windows installations are on C:
> - so there is no total separation.
>
> Roy

Antoine
Tue May 17 10:52:10 CDT 2005

En <news:eGiWX%23uWFHA.1468@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl>,
Roy Coorne va escriure:
> Joseph Conway [MSFT] wrote:
>> Just make sure you have it in a totally separate partition.
>>
> Unfortunately, the system files for all Windows installations are on
> C: - so there is no total separation.

First, there is no requisite for the system files to be in C:. In fact, if
you install in a volume different from the booting volume, the system files
will be almost surely anywhere but in C:. I do not have any C: drive here,
and this does not hurt Windows (generally, the ones that are hurt are
precisely the ones I want to intercept, malwares or badly programmed apps.)

Then, if you use some bootmanager that change the active partition (so there
is various "C:" disks), on the long term you may find having all the OS in
C: to be a Good Thing. For example, because your second volume, with the
datas, is D: for everybody :-).
In fact this was much more of a concern back in DOS/Windows days (because of
the fixed and thorny algorithm to allocate letters.


What is NOT recommanded is to install various Windows (I mean
%windir%/%SystemRoot%) side by side on the same volume. Avoid doing this
like the plague, /even/ if you know what you are doing.


Antoine

Andre
Tue May 17 10:54:47 CDT 2005

Thats one of the nice features of NT.
--

Andre
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"Rick" <rick@home.net> wrote in message
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> Not true at all. Windows XP and x64 can use any drive letter as their
> home/boot drive. It has been mentioned in this forum that one person's
> x64 booted to H: drive. I have had several different home/boot letters
> depending on my hardware at the time of installation.
>
> DOS is the OS that will only install to C: drive as a home/boot drive.
>
>
> Roy Coorne wrote:
>> Unfortunately, the system files for all Windows installations are on C: -
>> so there is no total separation.
>>
>> Roy