Can there be two different Operating Systems (XP and Win 8) on the same hard drive?

Dual Laptops would be much easier.

If you have just bought a laptop with Windows 8 on it, you may have a problem with trying to dual boot with XP. New hardware does not have any XP drivers. None have been written and none will be written.

To stay with XP you should use an older laptop that has drivers for XP.

Hi,

If there is space for a second hard disk on your laptop, then yes you can go for the second hard disk. Just open your laptop or use the user guide.

In general, you can use two operating systems in a single system. During bootup it will ask for which OS you would like to use for bootup.

But the work consistency is a bit doubtful, when Win 8 is loaded on XP.

But mostly Win 7 is used as a base and then windows 8 is loaded onto it.

There are 2 techniques of putting in homestead windows XP on your equipment. it is the two placed as ordinary boot or secondary boot. permit me clarify...... you are able to the two (a million) deploy homestead windows on your C force and allocating it because of fact the ordinary boot partition or (2)deploy homestead windows on a secondary partition like (D:, E:, F:, .....). For setting up homestead windows deploy homestead windows XP bootable CD and boot utilising the CD. Use F8 to agree the licence contract and enter the Serial Key presented with the CD. this might instantaneous for reboot of the equipment. as quickly because it reboots it is going to ask for the partition wherein the OS ought to be put in. layout the parttion utilising the report equipment (Fat32 or NTFS) you elect for. start up setting up the OS. this might require you to sit down down and click some next buttons. Thats it. the main suitable thank you to envision whetjer your harddisks are detected to envision interior the BIOS. it is finished urgent F2 or DEL for the time of boot up. the 1st window reflects the hardware thats detected.

yes , ideally they should be in different partitions but for smooth running you need to install XP first then the later O/S

yes you need to partition the hard drive into 2 partitions, then put one operating system onto each partition