Im planning on getting a new PC in a few weeks and i've been trying to figure out so many things before i get one. i've been looking around for the right system to suit my needs. i wanted to find a nice gaming PC, however im not looking to spend thousands of dollars to play 3 or 4 games at their maxed settings. i'll be playing homebrew and emulators more than commercial games. Im looking at the hp pavilion m8200n Media Center PC, however i wanted to find one loaded with XP, but i guess there's no such thing. i really don't want vista, but i don't want to risk downgrading just to find out that the system has some hidden problems. however i heard about dual-booting both OS's on the same system. i had the idea of getting an extra 500GB hard drive and dedicating it to XP. are there any SAFE tutorials and ways about dual booting XP in a vista system (using a extra internal hard drive)?
I'm guessing it's just the same as installing it on one of a single hd partitions. I had a dual-boot configuration up until 2 weeks ago, when I decided to keep Vista and delete XP after seeing different comparisons between XP sp3 and Vista sp1. Right now Vista has the same performance than XP, and in some cases Vista loads some apps and games much more faster than XP does. But if you have Vista Home then I really recommend that you upgrade to Ultimate
i wanted to have XP mostly because i heard of compatability issues with most homebrew, and i have an external hard drive loaded with old homebrew and emulators.
Very nice indeed, I wish I had the cpu speed and memory to be able to do something like that :crying:
Just throw another hard drive in the comp then install the "new" OS on the new drive. I dual-boot 32-bit and 64-bit Vista Home Premium on my PC by doing this (have an HP Pavilion a1723w that came with the 32-bit version already installed). Now everytime I start the computer, I get a menu to decide which one I want to load (it sucks in that both options just say Windows Vista Home Premium without differentiating, but it seems like that the last installed OS is listed first so no biggie).
