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[stinkywizzleteats]

Ok I am watching this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiL7eZOi7qM
"Install Windows 7 in Dual Boot with Pre-installed Windows XP"

Dude makes out like all you do is stick the windows cd in and tell it to install to the newly partitioned drive.

If this is true only hangup I can see is it might not like that I am going from XP to 98 from what I have read. Going to try install now.

[Eagle of Fire]

I don't know about an USB stick... But in the good old DOS days doing "format a: /s" did the trick.

Of course it format your disk, so don't keep important data on it if you do try!

[dosraider]

Been there , done that, ditched the whole multi boot from one HD.
Solution:
Save yourself some serious hassle, get a HD rack, and switch your HD.
As many OSses as you want without any troubles.



BTW:

Originally Posted by Eagle of Fire

I don't know about an USB stick... But in the good old DOS days doing "format a: /s" did the trick.

Won't work with an USB stick, you need a special soft to make it bootable.
Contrary to flops USB sticks don't have a specific boot sector located at cylinder 0/head 0/sector 1 , the soft needs to create a boot sector so that the Mobo can find and read it upon boot.

But anyway, a USB stick is really too slow to run an OS from it.
It's only interesting for OS install purposes, nothing more.

The soft I usually use to create a bootable USB stick is Rufus (Win).
http://rufus.akeo.ie/
Or in Linux UNetbootin
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

My two cents........

[Japo]

Originally Posted by Eagle of Fire

I don't know about an USB stick... But in the good old DOS days doing "format a: /s" did the trick.

After the death of floppy, the "/S" parameter is even gone from format.com in recent versions of Windows (rather, it now means enable/disable short filename support). And sys.com is gone altogether.

Originally Posted by Smiling Spectre

Well, actually, WinXP is unaware about Vista/Win7 (obviously), so installing XP surely mess with Win7 anyway.

What I meant is that if Windows supports multi-boot, it's only when installing newer on top of older, not the other way around, and maybe both versions have to be consecutive... But again I never tried, and even in that case it may depend on many silly factors, your particular installation disk, maybe even including if it's a Home or Pro, OEM or retail edition...

This is by far the hardest method to achieve your goal, IMO.

OT: What a coincidence, I just got this laptop for free from someone at work
http://www.toshiba-europe.com/bv/com...t/product.shtm