Satellite L500/013 - How to make dual boot of Windows 7 and XP?

Hi
I just bougth my first Toshiba laptop, it comes with Windows 7 Professional pre-installed. Before I start spending hours on this, I am just wondering if this can be done:
1) I would like to use the Windows 7 Professional in 64 bit mode and then
2) Create second partition on HD to install Windows XP 32 bit on it.
Just wondering about if this is possible and what is the recommended sequence for the install is. First thing I need to do is to create recovery disk for Windows 7, so I assume I need to configure Windows 7 first?
Thanks for any help
Thomas

> First thing I need to do is to create recovery disk for Windows 7, so I assume I need to configure Windows 7 first?
Well, this is strongly recommended!!! Before you would do anything with your HDD you should create the recovery disk!!!
Im not quite sure how you could set up an dual boot using Win 7 because I didnt try this but I did it using Vista.
First of all you have to create an second partition in Vista. This could be done in Disk Management.
Then I installed Win XP on the second partition. But after the XP installation I could not start Vista because Vista boot manager was damage by Win XP.
To fix this I have used a original Vista disk (not recovery disk). I booted the Vista DVD and this has repaired the Vista boot manager. In Vista I have installed EasyBCD.
EsayBCD is a small tool which helped to add the Win XP to the Vistas boot manager.
After new reboot Vista and Win XP appeared in the boot manager and I could choose between both OS.
I think you will need the same procedure using Win 7

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hiciu wrote:
/dev/sda
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|(mbr and partition table) |
| +----------------------------------+ |
| |(truecrypt) windows boot partition| |
| |----------------------------------| |
| |(truecrypt) windows 7 | |
| |----------------------------------| |
| |linux boot partition | |
| |----------------------------------| |
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| | +------------------------------+ | |
| | |rootfs | | |
| | |------------------------------| | |
| | |home | | |
| | |------------------------------| | |
| | |swap | | |
| | +------------------------------+ | |
| +----------------------------------+ |
+--------------------------------------+
3)Also, in case of full disk encryption, is partition table encrypted too?
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| | |------------------------------| | | +--------------------------+
| | |swap | | |
| | +------------------------------+ | |
| +----------------------------------+ |
+--------------------------------------+
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1)so this way i can leave mbr(including partition table) empty on hdd, while having them on usb stick? good. I can put copy of mbr with truecrypt loader on that usb stick too along with /boot partition just like in the link i gave above? So there would be NOTHING left unencrypted on my hdd? i like it.
2)My main goal is that hdd would look like blank if someone would want to check its contents. I've heard using Luks leaves some traces in the volume header?(it's not possible to use truecrypt for full linux system encryption too, right?)
3)How do i properly put /boot on usb stick? Also will there be any troubles updating arch with /boot being on separate media?
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ratchet wrote:II am able to install and run arch by installing grub to the mbr. when I do this, though, I cannot boot windows. (the windows section of grub menu.lst is uncommented and points toward hda0,0. I have tried hda 0,1 as well).
Is this a typo in your post or how it was in menu.lst? Surely it should be hd0,0 and not hda0,0? The entry I have in my menu.lst is as follows:
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What was yours?
Last edited by JHeaton (2011-10-10 20:18:22)

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