Comments on: Don’t Forget About the Dual-Booters! http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/dont-forget-about-the-dual-booters/ Connecting Ideas Thu, 24 May 2012 20:56:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: dave http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/dont-forget-about-the-dual-booters/comment-page-1/#comment-388265 dave Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:44:38 +0000 http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/dont-forget-about-the-dual-booters/#comment-388265 I have been dual-booting for a few years now. Was hard to find good D_B progs out there at first. I use EasyBCD to restore the vista boot files and run the D_B. Vista and XP Pro. The reformating and partioning went off without any probs. Used the windows partioning 'disk management tool' tried 2 third party ones but shockingly the windows one works best. My 500 G hard-disk now has 2 Os. I like vista for sure - kicked the snot out of it and it still runs. XP still handles my software testing better than Vista. My other machine has Vista Ultimate on it which is a nightmare all on it's own. Ultimate needs lots of stuff turned off to run stable even w/4 G of 667 Ram. I partioned half with Linux Ubuntu - what a relief. dual booting is much easier now than back-in-the-day. Give it a try you will definately enjoy it. I have been dual-booting for a few years now. Was hard to find good D_B progs out there at first. I use EasyBCD to restore the vista boot files and run the D_B.
Vista and XP Pro. The reformating and partioning went off without any probs. Used the windows partioning ‘disk management tool’ tried 2 third party ones but shockingly the windows one works best.
My 500 G hard-disk now has 2 Os. I like vista for sure – kicked the snot out of it and it still runs. XP still handles my software testing better than Vista.
My other machine has Vista Ultimate on it which is a nightmare all on it’s own. Ultimate needs lots of stuff turned off to run stable even w/4 G of 667 Ram. I partioned half with Linux Ubuntu – what a relief.
dual booting is much easier now than back-in-the-day. Give it a try you will definately enjoy it.

]]> By: Dustin Thayer http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/dont-forget-about-the-dual-booters/comment-page-1/#comment-313079 Dustin Thayer Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:41:51 +0000 http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/dont-forget-about-the-dual-booters/#comment-313079 True story. Dual-booting w/ xp is the only way to have vista as a 100% working OS. (because it doesn't do everything it should, and when you need to get everything done, time to call in XP) And I hate that it is true. But it is. True story. Dual-booting w/ xp is the only way to have vista as a 100% working OS. (because it doesn’t do everything it should, and when you need to get everything done, time to call in XP)

And I hate that it is true.

But it is.

]]> By: Eric http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/dont-forget-about-the-dual-booters/comment-page-1/#comment-308563 Eric Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:25:28 +0000 http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/dont-forget-about-the-dual-booters/#comment-308563 Yes, I agree, we mustn't forget about dual-booters. I for one have XP, Vista and Mandriva 2009 running stable and am working on getting around to installing Ubuntu 8.10. Yes, I agree, we mustn’t forget about dual-booters. I for one have XP, Vista and Mandriva 2009 running stable and am working on getting around to installing Ubuntu 8.10.

]]> By: Mahmoud Al-Qudsi http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/dont-forget-about-the-dual-booters/comment-page-1/#comment-246409 Mahmoud Al-Qudsi Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:39:59 +0000 http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/dont-forget-about-the-dual-booters/#comment-246409 Hey WildWestCoaster, welcome to NeoSmart Technologies :) Please open a support thread at http://neosmart.net/forums/ in the EasyBCD section and we'll see what we can do for you :) Hey WildWestCoaster, welcome to NeoSmart Technologies :)

Please open a support thread at http://neosmart.net/forums/ in the EasyBCD section and we’ll see what we can do for you :)

]]> By: wildwestcoaster http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/dont-forget-about-the-dual-booters/comment-page-1/#comment-246360 wildwestcoaster Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:40:20 +0000 http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/dont-forget-about-the-dual-booters/#comment-246360 Hey folks Good to see a resource for dual-boot masochists! I tried to put Zenwalk 5.0 as an alternative to vista, but messed up using the auto partition option with the result that my new lappie is without a viable OS now. In fact thats all it will give me by way of conversation. Its clearly upset! Can I restore to a previous good config. or do I have to format and start from bare metal? Is there a bit of software which would give me some options. I'm very stressed about this as I spent a large amount of $ on the lappie - too much to consider leaving it as it is, but the "recovery disc" the manufacturer sent me is doing nothing to help, and I dont believe it even has a version of windows on it which I could use to get running again! I'm not keen to shell out cash for a copy of windows which I already own! Help!!!? Hey folks

Good to see a resource for dual-boot masochists! I tried to put Zenwalk 5.0 as an alternative to vista, but messed up using the auto partition option with the result that my new lappie is without a viable OS now. In fact thats all it will give me by way of conversation. Its clearly upset!

Can I restore to a previous good config. or do I have to format and start from bare metal? Is there a bit of software which would give me some options. I’m very stressed about this as I spent a large amount of $ on the lappie – too much to consider leaving it as it is, but the “recovery disc” the manufacturer sent me is doing nothing to help, and I dont believe it even has a version of windows on it which I could use to get running again! I’m not keen to shell out cash for a copy of windows which I already own!

Help!!!?

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