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Eraser said:
Thanks greycap! Incidentally, you also answered another question I had, whether one could dual boot W7 64 bit with XP 32 bit, which I was thinking of doing, but had nothing to do with cfs3.
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Be warned though, mine isn't a "normal" dual boot in which one OS is installed first and then another onto a different partition. This was made to have two completely independent Windows installs on two physically separate drives, XP was (and still is) installed on a 500GB drive which was plugged out while I installed W7 on a 320GB drive. Both installs "see" each other as drive H: as my partitioning system on the 500GB drive is C: for Windows, E: for programs, F: for multimedia and G: as a general warehouse. So the extra 320GB drive became H: but I also swapped the drive letters around in W7 so that the program partition of the 500GB drive is seen by it too as E: and so on - and the XP partition is H: - confusing? I can't blame you if it is! Selecting the OS to be booted is done in a BIOS menu, not in a "normal" dual boot menu.

The reason to do it this way was that if in a normal dual boot system the OS which created the boot menu decides to go belly up it also wrecks the menu and you're stuck with one OS that doesn't work and one that works but can't be booted. Or at least that's what I was told.
 
With that post, greycap, I am ready to subscribe to your newsletter. Brilliant solution! :salute:

Tom

/who has space for another drive in his box... :kilroy:
/printing message... gotta sort this out...
 
greycap.raf said:
Be warned though, mine isn't a "normal" dual boot...
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Interesting! I too have a pair of hard drives, one for 7 and the other for XP. XP was installed when I built the machine and its drive is C: Win7 was installed later (when it was released) on the other drive, but it also calls its drive C: Each OS sees the other's drive as D:! :isadizzy:

I have the dual-boot software installed on both drives, so if things get muddled - it's happened - I can still boot to the OS I want: I used Easy BCD.
 
Hairyspin thanks, Tom. Intend optimum build for CFS3.

Noted your XP Pro (only have XP home: is worth sourcing the XP Pro?), also small mem. requirements for CFS3.

Realise, the way to answer the XP/XP64 question, might be to dual boot each and see which is best.


(Complex drive set-ups above, some understanding)
 
Hairyspin, sorry just re-read your post under 'Computer Reuirements'; you've been told XP64 is not good for CFS3. (could try a run).

So it's XP32 or XP32 Pro (guess you've found Pro is best).

Thanks
 
Hairyspin. When you build in Win7, I guess you don't lose you specular efffects (viz: still there to be seen in XP?). So ordinary CFS3 play in XP only?

like your set up, Tom.
 
My two cents

I have a dual OS computer with two separate HDs - XP Pro 32 and a Win 7 Pro 64 and a storage HD as well. Very simple to set up and works very well. Unless the house burns down or someother total diasater the data at home will be ok. Also, store a fair amount in cyberspace just as a precaution.

Since I fly mostly night stuff shine is not a prob for in in win7, the darker the better.
 
icutler said:
Hairyspin. When you build in Win7, I guess you don't lose your specular effects (viz: still there to be seen in XP?).
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That's right, it doesn't matter which OS I develop in, the specular shine shows properly in XP, flat as ink in Win 7.

I just like Win 7 as a working environment, plus some software I use is 64-bit. I originally bought XP Pro 32-bit because the OS has some features I wanted which XP Home lacks. CFS3 runs (and looks) just fine in either, but I wouldn't go looking for Pro unless you have a particular reason.
 
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