hi, not all the versions of windows 7 are provided with X.P mode: so as you know only professional enterprise and ultimate versions are provided with this. so the persons who are using other versions might prefer to use this. all the hardware might not be compatible with Virtualisation. further the license problem occurs as per my knowledge when you are upgrading from X.P and not when you own both the operating systems seperately. when you upgrade from any previous version of windows the previous license will no longer exist. so microsoft does not allow dule boot permissions when you are upgrading. further all the microsoft documentation clearly support duel boot environment. there is a good article which clearly states on windows secrets that the problem is when you are upgrading:
http://windowssecrets.com/2009/12/03/02-Microsoft-mucks-up-Windows-7-licensing On 1/9/10, Bharat <[email protected]> wrote: > hmmm, > while it is a good to know information, there are two difficulties with > this approach. > firstly, with the windows 7 being provided with the "XP Mode" installing > two OSes might not be needed. > secondly, by the virtue of up grading from windows xp to windows 7, > Microsoft's licencing agreement clearly states that, once you have upgraded > to windows 7 from any earlier version of windows, your previous licence > becomes void & may no longer be used either to dual boot a computer or to > install another copy of that OS on another computer.\ > save that, of course, it is a good to know information. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "srikanth kanuri" <[email protected]> > To: "accessindia" <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2010 9:04 AM > Subject: [AI] Dual Boot Your Pre-Installed Windows 7 Computer with XP > > > Dual Boot Your Pre-Installed Windows 7 Computer with XP > > So you got your shiny new pre-installed Windows 7 computer over the > holidays, but you want to have trusty XP standing by in a dual boot > setup. Today we’ll > walk through creating a new partition in Windows 7 then installing XP on it. > > In this process we are going to shrink some free space on the Windows > 7 hard drive to allocate toward a new > partition. Make sure to take a moment and decide > how much space to use for the XP partition. Make sure you have enough > space on your hard drive for files you’ll be adding to each. > > Create a New Partition > > The first thing we need to do is create a new partition on the Windows > 7 machine. Luckily we can do it without any 3rd party software. To > begin, click on > Start and type either partition or disk management into the search box > and at the top of the menu click on Create and format hard disk > partitions. > > The Disk Management window opens, and from here we need to free up > space on the (C:) drive Windows 7 is installed on. Right-click on the > drive and select > Shrink Volume. > > A window pops up showing the drive is being queried for available space. > > Now enter the amount of space you want to shrink the volume. You’re > shown the total size of the disk and the amount of size that is > available to shrink. > > After the process completes you’ll see the new Unallocated space. > Right-click that and select New Simple Volume. > > The New Simple Volume Wizard launches which is a straight forward > process. When you get to the Format Partition section, NTFS is > selected by default as > the file system and you can leave that as is. You might want to rename > the Volume label something else like “XP Partition” so it’s easier to > identify when > installing XP. Also you’ll probably want to make sure to check Perform > a Quick Format. > > After the format is complete you will see the new volume as a healthy > partition listed. > > Now when you go into My Computer you’ll see the the new disk and > notice that space has been taken away from the (C:) drive Windows 7 is > installed on. > > Install XP on the New Partition > > Now that you know how to create a new partition on your Windows 7 > machine, it’s time to install XP on it. Here we’re installing XP > Professional on the new > partition. Boot from the XP installation disk and start the install process. > > When it comes to choosing a partition, make sure you select the one > you created using the steps above. In this example we made a 10GB > partition for the > XP install. > > If the partition you created was already formatted as NTFS you can > leave it, or you can choose the FAT file system if you want. > > Basically you continue through as if you were doing a clean install on > any hard drive. > > Create Boot Loader > > Once installation of XP is successful you can now go through and > install the latest Microsoft Updates and drivers. You will undoubtedly > notice that the > machine is booting directly into XP at this time. This is due to XP > writing it’s bootloader over Windows 7’s. 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