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Thread ID: 137914	2014-09-07 07:32:00	WinXP and 7 on the same HDD?	Vicx (11114)	Press F1

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1383393	2014-09-07 07:32:00	Is it possible to have both Win XP and 7 on the same HDD without causing any problems? Do I need to make 2 separate partitions for each OS or can I have everything on one? I want to mainly use XP and only boot into 7 occasionally. The irony is I installed a new OS just so I could play 2 games (Age of Empires and Unreal Tournament) that are 10 years older than my old OS. I've been on 7 the last 2 days and I'm getting lots of compatibility issues and my PC is very old so it lags heaps (e6750, 2gb ram), can't deal with it so I want to go back to XP. I put off installing 7 for all these years but I just want to play my 10 year old games, other than that XP was completely fine for me.	Vicx (11114)
1383394	2014-09-07 07:49:00	You can install XP mode, if you've got 7 Pro. But some things may not run properly in XP mode. Otherwise install XP first then Win7. On 2 separate partitions. You could install / dual boot Linux too if you wanted to	Speedy Gonzales (78)
1383395	2014-09-07 09:49:00	You can install XP mode, if you've got 7 Pro. But some things may not run properly in XP mode. This. IMO stick with Windows 7, you're not doing yourself any favours by going with now-unsupported Windows XP.	pcuser42 (130)
1383396	2014-09-07 10:08:00	Why not get a solid state drive and put Win 7 on that ? Use your existing drive for a data partition, and then if you want, another partition for XP with dual boot. My wife's computer is an E6700 2.66Ghz and 2GB ram running Win 7 Home Premium with an SSD, it's not that slow, but then she doesn't play games.	Terry Porritt (14)
1383397	2014-09-07 10:29:00	why does it matter if XP is unsupported? It does the job and it does it a lot better than 7 so far. And I don't want to spend more money just to get it on par with XP. I'm not getting anything out of this other than compatibility with my older games, so far it's been a mistake.	Vicx (11114)
1383398	2014-09-07 11:30:00	On W7, have you tried running the games in compatibility Mode ? This is different to XP mode. Might just be a fact of life - The 10 year old games are simply to old to run on a more modern OS.	wainuitech (129)
1383399	2014-09-07 11:41:00	No, the games don't work on XP, that's why I upgraded to 7. The irony is these games are older than XP, yet I had to upgrade to a newer OS to play games even older than the OS I upgraded from! :waughh: madness!.. I bought Age of Empires 2 HD a year ago and had been trying to get it to work ever since, that's why I caved with Win7.	Vicx (11114)
1383400	2014-09-07 20:49:00	Is it possible to have both Win XP and 7 on the same HDD without causing any problems? The irony is I installed a new OS just so I could play 2 games (Age of Empires and Unreal Tournament) that are 10 years older than my old OS . (e6750, 2gb ram), . Yes . You generally have to install the older O/S first . But why? It's pointless, a very old O/S and a newer one perhaps . I think your issue isn't the O/S, it something else . And your hardware isn't helping . . . 2GB??!! What CPU?	pctek (84)
1383401	2014-09-07 21:28:00	I think that you have to bite the bullet. The PC is out-dated like and old car and so are the games. In saying that, I know that some of the old games are such a favourite thing it is hard to say goodbye to them. Try and find something similar but is much more up to date. Is XP still on the PC? If so you will need to create a second partition to install Win7 on. You could then try, as WT says, to run the games in compatibility mode. When you install the games on Win7 you should install them in compatibility mode at that stage.	Bryan (147)
1383402	2014-09-07 22:06:00	I've run windows 7 and even 8 on PC's with specs that low without too much issue, maybe it's just a really slow hdd or not enough RAM. In any case if you want to dual boot that's your call, as people have mentioned it's easiest on 2 partitions or 2 physical drives. You always install the older version first and then the newer, reason being the newer version generally knows how to deal with previous versions and set up dual boot automatically but the reverse is not true. One comment, I still play age of empires HD myself under windows 8 64 bit, it may well be a 10 year old game but was re-released for modern platforms which is why it's not working under XP. Anyway my comment is don't expect it to run well on your PC on larger maps, a recent patch improved the AI and caused it to slow to a crawl on some larger games even on my machine which is fairly high end (i7, 8GB, SSD, R9 290). I was pretty annoyed at the time and haven't played it much latley because of this. And yes they are still patching this game.	dugimodo (138)
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