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Old 06-18-2003, 07:05 PM   #1
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Can you have any 2 operating systems running on the 1 computer ie windows xp pro and server 2000 or can only certain ones run go on the same computer???
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Old 06-18-2003, 07:14 PM   #2
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You can have more than one OS on a computer.
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Old 06-18-2003, 07:26 PM   #3
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I rad recently about some one who had some crazy number of OS's (50 plus).

The best way to do it is set up your partitions, install th eoldest first one one partition and then the next OS on the next partition.

I have seen this question recently here where there was some download that allowed you to 'force' in an older OS after the fact, I'll try to find it....
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Old 06-18-2003, 07:44 PM   #4
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Thank you RayH and sdkfz for your promp replies so any o/s can run along side any other
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Old 06-19-2003, 07:09 AM   #5
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Cool

For clarification are you asking if they can run simultaneous or if you can have a PC with more than one bootable OS?

If simultaneous the answer is no.

If more than one boot option, then yes as has been answered already.
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