Guest mooney10 Posted February 4, 2010 Report Share Posted February 4, 2010 I need to Dual Boot With Windows 7 and Vista and XP. I need to make sure that i can still boot in to all of them. I have a 320gb hard drive. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted February 5, 2010 Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 Welcome to the forum, although you'd be better asking this on a Windows forum. This is a Linux forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mooney10 Posted February 5, 2010 Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 and mandriva. sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted February 6, 2010 Report Share Posted February 6, 2010 So you wish to boot Windows 7, Vista, XP, and Mandriva? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted February 6, 2010 Report Share Posted February 6, 2010 That's triple boot, not dualboot. The difiicult part is putting XP and Veesta on the same hard drive. Have you managed that already? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted February 6, 2010 Report Share Posted February 6, 2010 My guesses are you'll need to do it like this: 1. Install XP 2. Install Vista 3. Install Windows 7 4. Install Mandriva You'll need separate partitions for all Operating Systems. You'll have to ensure you create the necessary partitions, but don't create all as primary. If they are all primary, the max is 4, and you won't be able to create a swap partition for Mandriva. The Windows partitions can be primary, but then you'll need to create an extended partition, which will then be utilised to create logical partitions within it. Multiple versions of Windows can exist. I have done it before, but only with two versions, but the same logic should apply. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted February 6, 2010 Report Share Posted February 6, 2010 (edited) Sorry, but all linux partitions (incl. swap) can be logical ones. No need to set swap on primary partition. Windoze do need primary partition for the OS files. Edited February 6, 2010 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted February 6, 2010 Report Share Posted February 6, 2010 Sorry, but all linux partitions (incl. swap) can be logical ones. No need to set swap on primary partition. Windoze do need primary partition for the OS files. I wasn't saying put swap on a primary partition. Max amount of primary partitions on a disk is four. Therefore, if you have one for XP, one for Vista, one for Windows 7, then you only have one more primary partition left. That means you can only create one partition for use, as / and therefore means no room for swap, /home or whatever else. Hence, the last partition would need to be extended to allow you to create a swap and / plus any others that might be required. I think you completely misunderstood. With logical partitions, you can then create up to fifteen partitions. So, based on what I originally wrote, I was therefore saying that the Linux partitions would be logical ones and not what you said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest eekie Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 You will normally have two bootloaders, for the windows operating systems and for mandriva. In order to better distinguish between the windows entries I recommend easy bcd, a tool in which you can rename the windows entries and set the default. This tool can also add mandriva so that you can start mandriva from the windows boot loader. The graphical mandriva bootloader however is more attractive. If you did not install Mandriva as last one, you can use super grub to restore the mandriva bootloader. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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