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Can I run these two if I install both OS's on separate Hard Drives, then use a caddy to swap the two OS drives and reboot when I need to use either Vista or Win 7?
Can I run these two if I install both OS's on separate Hard Drives, then use a caddy to swap the two OS drives and reboot when I need to use either Vista or Win 7?
Now if, in the folding, I ESP the tesseract a half twist around myself and-
Should work, though you can just install them both at the same time on different partitions/drives and boot to whichever.
The question is why? Win7 64bit works great, why go back to vista 32 and switch around?
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Well, my computer has just died (The hard drive is fine) and there is alot of data on that drive I don't want to lose and I want to move up to Win 7 64Bit, the mobo is caput, so I will replace that and use the graphics cards, memory and sound card but still have use of the old OS drive and have another with Win 7 64Bit for video editing...
Now if, in the folding, I ESP the tesseract a half twist around myself and-
You 'could', but I think you would have problems especially if you are going to a different MB. The 32-bit install is going to be 'looking' for hardware that isn't there, and finding hardware that it doesn't have drivers for, etc. I think Vista is a bit more flexible in situations like that, but XP would probably barf and refuse to ever work properly again, until you did a complete re-install.
If you are just 'the average user', I'd just add the new HDD, install Win 7 x64 on it, and use the 'old' HDD for data storage. At that point you could just delete the old Vista x32 WINDOWS folder to free up that space. It's not really worth the effort to 'resurrect' the 32 bit install.
Now, if you are something of a 'power user' and would like to have multiple OS installs, then you should check out HyperOS. It's a nice bit of software that allows you to have multiple (up to 24) OSs installed, and boot to any of them at will. I've been using it for years, and currently have installs of XP x86, Vista x64, and Win 7 x64 on here.
The old hard drive has Vista OS on it as well as some data I need to keep for the time being, so I was hoping to keep all the same hardware I had before to use it until I can salvage the data from it, then I will use the new Win 7...
So there should be no driver issues to worry about...
Now if, in the folding, I ESP the tesseract a half twist around myself and-
Windows 7 should be able to read the data as well unless it is something very special.
If you just install Win7 on a second drive and connct that to the first SATA or IDE channel, then after the install connect the old drive to the second channel.
You should take into account that driver support for 64bit OSes is still lacking compared to 32 bit. It may be a little bit faster due to the 64 bit instructions when using video editors/encoders though. Nothing spectacular, but faster. You will need x64 programs for that. You will probably need x64 versions of security software too.
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