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| Thread ID: 122979 | 2012-01-25 04:42:00 | UEFI With Dual Boot Windows XP/Windows 7 | andrew_k (16411) | Press F1 |
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| 1255785 | 2012-01-25 04:42:00 | I am thinking about upgrading my current system sometime this year. Currently I dual boot Windows XP 32 Bit and Windows 7 Professional 64 bit (the former for work, the latter for music making). I'll probably end up with an i7 Ivy Bridge based system with a Z77 chipset based motherboard. The problem I have is I believe all the newer motherboards support UEFI rather than the old BIOS, and Windows XP won't be able to boot from this (as far as I know). I'm wondering with the dual boot setup if it would be possible to have the Windows 7 boot manager boot up Windows XP? | andrew_k (16411) | ||
| 1255786 | 2012-01-25 06:50:00 | Seems like boards will boot from BIOS OR UEFI. Even a lot of current boards have UEFI capability. Read here windowssecrets.com |
linw (53) | ||
| 1255787 | 2012-01-25 07:46:00 | I've got a i5-2300 with Asus P8H67 that has Windows XP and 7 in dual-boot. It's definitely possible. However, XP lacks SATA support, and may be a bit of problem (although it's a problem with all new-ish computers, and is independent of UEFI). |
LynX (14542) | ||
| 1255788 | 2012-01-25 07:50:00 | There's SATA drivers for XP on the ASUS site. But you would (probably) have to slipstream them. if you dont have a floppy | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1255789 | 2012-01-25 07:56:00 | Ah ... try here (www.digitgeek.com) and I think you can get an answer on XP support for SATA | SP8's (9836) | ||
| 1255790 | 2012-01-25 07:57:00 | Snap Speedy !!! | SP8's (9836) | ||
| 1255791 | 2012-01-25 18:22:00 | I'm pretty sure it'll just work, I have an i5 on a asus P8H61 with UEFI bios that's running XP just fine. No installation problems and the supplied CD seemed to load drivers for everything. I suspect the only potential problem would be if your boot drive was larger than 2TB and I'm not sure about that one. I find less and less reason to use XP these days however, do you really need to dual boot? | dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1255792 | 2012-01-25 19:53:00 | Thanks for all the replies. I seem to recall I slipstreamed Sp2 into XP before installing it. I've got 2 400gb SATA drives in my current system, doing a clean install of XP Professional after I built it. When installing XP recognised the drives, and I was able to partition and format them with no issues. I hope the UEFI does just work. The only reason I'm using XP is I work as a developer and a lot of our clients are still using this OS. Vista didn't get a look in, and uptake of Windows 7 hasn't been that rapid. |
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