Solved Dual Boot, newbie help

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tadisbad67

New Member

• May 2, 2009

• #1

Vista x64 home premium native instal, Acer m3201a, have 6 hardrives to choose from to dual bood x32 vista home premium, any help out there?

 

My Computer

System One

• Manufacturer/Model

  Acer Aspire M3201A

  CPU

  AMD Phenom x3

  Memory

  6 GB

  Graphics card(s)

  ATI Radeon 3200 series

  Sound Card

  Realtech HD Audio

  Monitor(s) Displays

  Old Dell CRT

  Hard Drives

  6 Internal and 1 External

  Internet Speed

  Standard Broadband

  Other Info

  Know just enough to make me dangerous.

Brink

Staff member

mvp

• May 2, 2009

• #2

Hello Tadisbad,

You can use the same method in this tutorial to dual boot with. Just substitute your 32-bit Vista for Windows 7, and use the option for when Vista was installed first.

Dual Boot Installation with Windows 7 and Vista - Windows 7 Forums

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

My Computers

System One System Two

• Operating System

  Windows 10 Pro 64-bit

  Manufacturer/Model

  Custom

  CPU

  Intel i7-8700K 5 GHz

  Motherboard

  ASUS ROG Maximus XI Formula Z390

  Memory

  64 GB (4x16GB) G.SKILL TridentZ RGB DDR4 3600 MHz (F4-3600C18D-32GTZR)

  Graphics card(s)

  ASUS ROG-STRIX-GTX1080TI-O11G-GAMING

  Sound Card

  Integrated Digital Audio (S/PDIF)

  Monitor(s) Displays

  2 x Samsung Odyssey G7 27"

  Screen Resolution

  2560x1440

  Hard Drives

  1TB Samsung 990 PRO M.2, 4TB Samsung 990 PRO PRO M.2, 8TB WD MyCloudEX2Ultra NAS

  PSU

  Seasonic Prime Titanium 850W

  Case

  Thermaltake Core P3

  Cooling

  Corsair Hydro H115i

  Mouse

  Logitech MX Master 3

  Keyboard

  Logitech wireless K800

  Internet Speed

  1 Gb/s Download and 35 Mb/s Upload

  Other Info

  Logitech Z625 speaker system, Logitech BRIO 4K Pro webcam, HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M477fdn, APC SMART-UPS RT 1000 XL - SURT1000XLI, Galaxy S23 Plus phone

• Operating System

  Windows 10 Pro

  Manufacturer/Model

  HP Envy Y0F94AV

  CPU

  i7-7500U @ 2.70 GHz

  Memory

  16 GB DDR4-2133

  Sound Card

  Conexant ISST Audio

  Monitor(s) Displays

  17.3" UHD IPS touch

  Screen Resolution

  3480 x 2160

  Hard Drives

  512 GB M.2 SSD

rive0108

Vista Guru

Gold Member

• May 2, 2009

• #3

tadisbad67 said:

Vista x64 home premium native instal, Acer m3201a, have 6 hardrives to choose from to dual bood x32 vista home premium, any help out there?

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Brink's suggestion is excellent, but if you have difficulty-
Try this If you need to create multiple partitions, or need a walkthrough for dual booting:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/163304-dual-boot-using-free-partitioning-software.html

 

Last edited: May 2, 2009

My Computer

System One

• CPU

  T7600G Core2Duo 2.66 Ghz

  Motherboard

  Intel 945PM + ICH7 Chipset

  Memory

  4GB DDR2 PC2-5300 667MHz

  Graphics card(s)

  Mobility Radeon x1900 256MB

  Sound Card

  Realtek HD

  Monitor(s) Displays

  WUXGA 17"

  Screen Resolution

  1920X1200

  Hard Drives

  640GB 7200RPM SATA/RAID 0 (2x320GB) and 320GB 7200RPM External

  Mouse

  Wireless Microsoft 3000

  Internet Speed

  10 mbps/2 mbps

  Other Info

  Optical Drive: Panasonic UJ-220 DL BD-RE (Blu-Ray)

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tadisbad67

New Member

• May 2, 2009

• #4

Thanx! Love You Guys! Keep up all the hard word so a newbie like me can continue to pick your brains! tadisbad67

 

My Computer

System One

• Manufacturer/Model

  Acer Aspire M3201A

  CPU

  AMD Phenom x3

  Memory

  6 GB

  Graphics card(s)

  ATI Radeon 3200 series

  Sound Card

  Realtech HD Audio

  Monitor(s) Displays

  Old Dell CRT

  Hard Drives

  6 Internal and 1 External

  Internet Speed

  Standard Broadband

  Other Info

  Know just enough to make me dangerous.

Brink

Staff member

mvp

• May 2, 2009

• #5

You're welcome Tad.

 

My Computers

System One System Two

• Operating System

  Windows 10 Pro 64-bit

  Manufacturer/Model

  Custom

  CPU

  Intel i7-8700K 5 GHz

  Motherboard

  ASUS ROG Maximus XI Formula Z390

  Memory

  64 GB (4x16GB) G.SKILL TridentZ RGB DDR4 3600 MHz (F4-3600C18D-32GTZR)

  Graphics card(s)

  ASUS ROG-STRIX-GTX1080TI-O11G-GAMING

  Sound Card

  Integrated Digital Audio (S/PDIF)

  Monitor(s) Displays

  2 x Samsung Odyssey G7 27"

  Screen Resolution

  2560x1440

  Hard Drives

  1TB Samsung 990 PRO M.2, 4TB Samsung 990 PRO PRO M.2, 8TB WD MyCloudEX2Ultra NAS

  PSU

  Seasonic Prime Titanium 850W

  Case

  Thermaltake Core P3

  Cooling

  Corsair Hydro H115i

  Mouse

  Logitech MX Master 3

  Keyboard

  Logitech wireless K800

  Internet Speed

  1 Gb/s Download and 35 Mb/s Upload

  Other Info

  Logitech Z625 speaker system, Logitech BRIO 4K Pro webcam, HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M477fdn, APC SMART-UPS RT 1000 XL - SURT1000XLI, Galaxy S23 Plus phone

• Operating System

  Windows 10 Pro

  Manufacturer/Model

  HP Envy Y0F94AV

  CPU

  i7-7500U @ 2.70 GHz

  Memory

  16 GB DDR4-2133

  Sound Card

  Conexant ISST Audio

  Monitor(s) Displays

  17.3" UHD IPS touch

  Screen Resolution

  3480 x 2160

  Hard Drives

  512 GB M.2 SSD