I know you can use differnt operating systems such as Windows and Linux on one machine, but aside from that is there any good rieason to do this?
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partitioning hard drive was used on early days of computer because older operating system had a limit on addressing/accessing hard disk in terms of size. e.g windows nt 4.0 can only installed on 4gb hard drive, what will you do then if you had 40gb hard drive? the answer is partition your harddrive.
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Jet <--- you are wrong. I have XP Pro / Vista and a distro of Linux on 1 machine (tri boot) it is not hard at all. You would only need VM software if you want them to run at the same time. It does not sound like this is the case. Answer to the other question, NO, you will not have 75GB on both. You will have to partition the drive (right click on My Computer, go to manage, and use the Disk Management portion to make partitions) Also, I agree with one of the other answers 512MB is not enough for Vista. I have 2GB and running multiple apps is still slow with Vista Ultimate. \n\nGood Luck.....
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can you duel boot? partition the HDD & then have seperaste o/s on each partition.\n\nI have winxp & linspire 5-0 running on 1 pc.
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if using linux and winxp, there may be grub boot loader in linux and another already installed.  microsoft recently released a free program to allow two operating systems.  for more info, contact me or google "boot loaders"
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are they both using windows? windows file sharing is built in.\nmac, linux , and others each have their own way.\n\nto do it in a cross platform way, you need one machine to act as an ftp host. and the rest act as a client.
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The only advantage I can think of is if one of the OS does something the other can not.
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it can be done ...... but i am not going to incriminate myself online. if you look hard enough on "certain sites" you will get there. but i suggest you go genuine, that is something you shold have. a genuine operating system. or swap to win 2000 as it doesn;t need registering and is pretty much like xp but without all the fancy menus and stuff.. it's up to you. i have 2000 on my laptop and i also have genuine xp on my other two desktop pc's
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you will have to get yourself a copy of windows, or if you want something free download a small iso version of linux like DSL, burn it onto a cd and run that... nothing else u can do.
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Linux does all the things you listed.  I know Windows inside and out, I can tell you how to edit the registry and system settings to get maximum performance and speed out of Windows without sacrificing any services.  On Linux, let's face it, I don't want to use a command line to debug drivers, forget it!  One reason I don't like Linux is because the drivers are a pain to install and not all of my hardware is supported (but it is under Windows XP).  Also, Linux is really bad for gamers (like me) as there aren't games on Linux, at least none that I would play.  Low Cost... hmmm, okay, I paid $15 for Windows XP Pro under the old student discount program at my college.  I am also using free anti-virus and antispyware applications.  I'm sticking with Windows, Linux is too much of a pain but great for most home users and for those who don't want to worry about spyware and viruses.  I am not a home user... I am a Windows XP power user.  Windows XP is just as safe as Linux if Home users would take more responsibility for their own security and you'd make my job a lot easier.  I don't enjoy removing hundreds of spyware and viruses from PCs when common sense security practices could fix it.  And unless you really need your data... I'm going to format the drive in those cases.
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Though I do not know why you would want to, you can do that, but you can only use one of those operating systems at a time.  I would not bother though seeing as XP realistically is a much better OS (especially with SP2) and will do everything that 2000 will.  It is up to you, but realize, the OS that is on your default boot drive will be the one that loads up.  So if you set the default boot drive to C: then XP will load.  There are a couple ways around it, but you can still only run one at a time.  Besides, those two would likely conflict with one another anyway.
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It's not all about compatable applications.\nThere are alternatives to most windows applications for Linux.\nWith pressure others can get ported.\nUntill then there's always WINE.
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Yes you can, here's a great article on how to do it.\n\nhttp://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/11/19/mac_pc.html
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There is no easy way to do it.\n\nThe only way I can think of would be to create a bootable network floppy disk to give you DOS access to the network, then you can map a drive to another PC and run the windows XP installation from there... Network install. It will work but you'll have to use a full version of XP.
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Intel CPUs will be used in future Machintosh machines and Some call these MacIntels. Apple will not support running Microsoft Windows on their machines. Dual Booting refers to having two operating systems on the computer, MacOS and Windows, or Windows and Linux are all examples. You'll have a choice of using either operating system at any one time. Switching to the other operating system will require a reboot. The operating systems will not interoperate with each other, they can't see each other, and you can't have them both running at the same time. At least not without some virtualization (whole other discussion.) So you can choose one or the other every time your computer starts up and your chosen Operating System will be loaded and the other will stay dormant.
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Use "wine", but don't expect miracles. You're better off looking for a Linux-comptabile alternative of your win32 application.
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Yes, you can do it.  Just set up more than one user account, and tell the computer to use different settings for each user.\n\nI'm not entirely sure, but I think you can find these settings under "Users" on the Control Panel.
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in theory running two sound cards is possible on any machine as long as they dont conflict with each other on the various resources, ie the i/o range and the irq you can check and set these via the control panel of windows, not sure about linux though.