Evening, all.
I currently run an old Compaq Presario SR1619UK desktop PC; Athlon 64 X2 3800+, 4 GB RAM, WD 500 GB Caviar 'Blue', and a Kingspec 32 GB PATA SSD. No graphics card; using the inbuilt ATI Radeon Xpress200G chip. The SSD was surplus, after fitting a larger one to my ancient Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop; and I thought I'd put it to good use, rather than letting it gather dust in the back of a cupboard.
I run Windows XP Pro 32-bit, and around 7 or 8 'Puppies'. Most of these are also 32-bit; but I'm starting to explore 64-bit distros, given that this old girl is easily capable of running them, and the fact that Google, bless their little cotton socks, have seen fit to drop support for 32-bit Chrome.
I'm a long-term Chrome user; been using it ever since it was in 'beta', many moons ago now. It's always been my favourite browser. I've already got a couple of 64-bit Pups, but would like to install, and try out Windows XP Pro 64-bit, of which I have a copy. Or is this a bad idea?
The mobo on the old girl is hybrid IDE/PATA and SATA 1; it was made around the time that SATA was starting to come onto the market. XP 32-bit Pro, and 5 'Pups' are on the WD SATA hard drive.....and two other 'Pups' are on the Kingspec SSD.
Main hard drive:-
...and the small SSD:-
You can see the partition I've prepared ready for XP Pro 64-bit on the main HDD.
When I re-installed XP a couple of times after installing the SSD, I found I had to disconnect the SSD to get XP to install where I wanted it on the main hard drive. Got no problem with doing this again, but I would like (if possible) a wee bit more information on how to install a second Windows OS onto a machine that's already got one installed.
What are the pitfalls.....and what in particular do I need to be aware of? Or is it essentially the same as multi-booting Linux distros; partitioning, formatting, installing, setting up a boot-loader, etc, etc?
Any information will be very much appreciated; even after 35-plus years of playing around with these boxes of electronic 'junk', and trying pretty much every OS in existence at some point or another, I still consider myself to be very much a 'noob'!
Mike.
I currently run an old Compaq Presario SR1619UK desktop PC; Athlon 64 X2 3800+, 4 GB RAM, WD 500 GB Caviar 'Blue', and a Kingspec 32 GB PATA SSD. No graphics card; using the inbuilt ATI Radeon Xpress200G chip. The SSD was surplus, after fitting a larger one to my ancient Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop; and I thought I'd put it to good use, rather than letting it gather dust in the back of a cupboard.
I run Windows XP Pro 32-bit, and around 7 or 8 'Puppies'. Most of these are also 32-bit; but I'm starting to explore 64-bit distros, given that this old girl is easily capable of running them, and the fact that Google, bless their little cotton socks, have seen fit to drop support for 32-bit Chrome.
I'm a long-term Chrome user; been using it ever since it was in 'beta', many moons ago now. It's always been my favourite browser. I've already got a couple of 64-bit Pups, but would like to install, and try out Windows XP Pro 64-bit, of which I have a copy. Or is this a bad idea?
The mobo on the old girl is hybrid IDE/PATA and SATA 1; it was made around the time that SATA was starting to come onto the market. XP 32-bit Pro, and 5 'Pups' are on the WD SATA hard drive.....and two other 'Pups' are on the Kingspec SSD.
Main hard drive:-
...and the small SSD:-
You can see the partition I've prepared ready for XP Pro 64-bit on the main HDD.
When I re-installed XP a couple of times after installing the SSD, I found I had to disconnect the SSD to get XP to install where I wanted it on the main hard drive. Got no problem with doing this again, but I would like (if possible) a wee bit more information on how to install a second Windows OS onto a machine that's already got one installed.
What are the pitfalls.....and what in particular do I need to be aware of? Or is it essentially the same as multi-booting Linux distros; partitioning, formatting, installing, setting up a boot-loader, etc, etc?
Any information will be very much appreciated; even after 35-plus years of playing around with these boxes of electronic 'junk', and trying pretty much every OS in existence at some point or another, I still consider myself to be very much a 'noob'!
Mike.