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32 bit to 64 bit Vista/Colin can you clear this up?
and wanted to upgrade it to 64-bit. Of course Sony doesn't support that (yet). So I bought Vista Ultimate Upgrade and upgraded the Home Premium to Ultimate 32-bit, which Sony also didn't support, seemlessly. Then I installed XP x64 in a dual boot configuration, and except for HDAUDIO/MODEM drivers that worked out

Vista 64bit or 32bit, or Dual Boot?
I suggest doing what I did, buy the retail copy of the OS and dual boot the 32bit and 64bit, and test them both out. the few things I've run in to have been "Vista" in general I personally would build the gaming machine and install Vista 32 bit and then upgrade to Vista 64 bit when it is fully compatible.

Convert new HP 32bit Vista home premium to Vista 64bit Ultimate
The dual-boot would be more headaches than its worth. Especially if they try to share the same apps. If you must have 64-bit Vista to experiment with, put your apps in the One drive would be used to install 32 bit Vista and be roughly 30GB. The second partition would be used for Vista 64bit and be roughly 30GB.

Dual boot, triple boot or VPC?
Using it, you can install and run Vista (any 32-bit version, I believe), using a full license, as others have said. In that way, you can test on There are plenty of articles on the web for setting up an XP/Vista dual boot configuration so setting that up should be no problem. Here are my main questions: 1) Is

Bit the bullet-now what?
Michael Jennings metarh...@gmail.com microsoft public windows vista general What I would do would be to try installing MCE on a blanked hard drive, with the Vista drive T5 wrote: Can I have a dual boot 64bit and 32 bit os? As long as you have 64-bit hardware, yes. 64-bit HW will run 32-bit Vista very nicely thanks.

Experience with Win64
Mike M...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista general (c:\) healthy (system, boot, page file, active, crash dump, primary) (d:\) healthy (logical drive) "Michael Still can't boot to my XP installation and I've already formatted the drive twice today in attempt to resolve this issue.

Install 32 bit Version of XP Pro after x64
"Theo" wrote: The 64-bit version boots up in the 64-bit mode only. There is no way to make it boot in the 32-bit mode. If you want to replace the 64-bit version, you must completely delete the current installation and do a new installation of the 32-bit version, or do a dual boot with each version on different

Dual Vista boot
(It took me a few months to learn that (x86) meant that my 32-bit apps should go there when I was running x64!) Other than the multiple Setups, I have an XP Tablet PC and want to install Vista Ultimate as a dual boot option due to the need for several programs I have to have that are not yet Vista compatible.

Dual Boot
Iman I...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista installation_setup I have just built a new computer, and I'm uncertain where to start with OS installation. I want to have an XP-Pro SP2 32-bit & Vista Ultimate 64-bit dual boot to 2 SATA HDs. Which OS do I install 1st so that I'll have a menu

Questions for Vista users
Michael Altmann m...@aie.de linux debian bugs dist linux debian maint boot Package: installation-reports Boot method: CD and network Image version: Debian .... latency 0, IRQ 20 Memory at fa205000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd Kernel modules:

change from 64 bit to 32 bit
Vista will see C: as its system partition. I don't know if VistaBootPro works in 64 bit WinXP with the .net 2.0 framework, but if it does, you can run it to whomp up a dual boot according to this: http://www.pro-networks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=88231 The part that you are interested in is down in Installing XP.

Vista Ultimate (32 Bit) in Virtual PC 2007, cannot be activated...
So, I am also considering getting Vista Ultimate 64 bit, and dual booting with my XP Pro 32 bit installation. I have done some basic reading, and have some basic understanding. and certainly would not upgrade to it as my primary OS at this time, but wouldn't mind giving 64 bit a go in a dual boot environment.

Dual boot XP and Vista?
While I've never run the full Photoshop, I've been running Photoshop Elements (versions 2.0 and now 3.0) for a couple of years in a dual-boot setup. The key - for me, at least - is to have a For example, my system has more than a half-dozen versions of WinXP/Vista installed, both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.

Dual Boot Vista Ultimate 64-BIT & 32-BIT
If I buy a Core 2 Duo E6300 with XP Pro 32-bit pre-installed, can I expect all my software and peripherals I own now (and which work in XP Pro on a Pentium Can I then partition the drive and install Vista Beta 2 in the second partition, and dual boot? When Vista is released is there any reason I could not buy a

Switch back to 32 bit Vista?
Hey gang, I run Quicken 2008 Deluxe, on XP Pro 32 bit. Last weekend, I installed Vista 64 bit Ultimate, on it's own hard drive, to dual boot with XP Pro. Anyone running Quicken 2008 that is doing this, with no issue on Vista 64 bit? 2: Should I decide to install Quicken on my Vista 64 bit install,

Running Vista 64 bit in 32 bit mode
To dual-boot, I set up my computer according to the instructions given on http://techrepublic.com.com/. I did a clean install of XP Pro, downloaded all the relevant updates and then partitioned Hello, I did a clean install of Vista Ultimate on a separate partition and am booting Vista 32-bit with XP Pro 32-bit.

Vista Ultimate (32 Bit) in Virtual PC 2007, cannot be activated...
For some time now I've had two Windows systems on my PC that I dual boot from: XP pro and XP 64. I've upgraded the XP pro (32 bit) to Vista, and have now activated it Could I cancel the Vista 32 activation and transfer it to the 64 installation? Or (I hope) can I have two systems on one PC as I do now with XP?

Dual Boot Windows XP x64 and Vista 32-bit Problem
"mikeyhsd" wrote: to boot your computer and be able to select which OS , boot XP and then insert the vista dvd in the drive and when it asks where to install, select the proper I'm about to install Vista 32-bit on my home computer. I have Win XP Pro installed, plus I have an extra hard drive connected.

Dual Boot Windows XP x64 and Vista 32-bit Problem
Once it's installed it's independent of the original installation medium. Probably because architecture stuff and bit length in 32-bit is half :)? To help anyone out who is also attempting to dualboot FreeBSD/amd64 and Vista: here is what I did. Install Vista first. Use the disk manager to create a partition

How much to spend on Vista?
I will get the retail package so that I have the choice to upgrade when I feel ready for it, and will dual boot with an inactivated 64-bit installation until then. You can actually extend the grace period for activation to 120 days legitimately if you know how. I'm just using Vista RTM 32-bit at the moment. ss.