Can you have 2 O/S's on the same PC

[Adam_C]

Does anyone know if you can have 2 operating systems installed on the same PC?

I need to run a Japanese version of Windows, but dont want to solely give the PC up, and want to be able to run a UK version as well traffic.

Any knowledge on this?

[MonkeeSage]

Sure, two windows installations can reside on the same PC. It is usually best to put them on two separate drives or partitions, just so there is no clash (like one overwriting settings from the other), but aside from that there is no problem. It is called dual booting. You can probably find all the find you need on G if you search for dual booting windows.

Jordan

<edit>find all the find? hmmm...I dunno about that, but you'll probably find all the info too</edit>

[edited by: MonkeeSage at 2:55 pm (utc) on Aug. 15, 2003]

[SinclairUser]

Try partition magic - it allow you to split your disk and install multiple o/s.

That will work on your PC.

[Adam_C]

Cool.

Cheers.

[Chndru]

does it mean one have windows and mac in a same pc?

[RoadRash]

You can run Windows on a Mac with Virtual PC, at this time, there is no Vitural Mac :)

[snowman]

Way back when I was a PC user, I had a Pentium 1 with two 1 Gig hard drives and about 80 meg of Ram.

On this system I remember I was able to install:

WinNT4 (NTFS formatted partition)
OS/2 (HPFS formatted partition)
RedHat 6.0

While I remember there was some issue regarding which operating systems absolutely required living on the primary drive, it's been some time and I just don't remember which OS it happened to be.

I think I also tried a fourth OS (Win 3.1) but there was some incompatability with a peripheral card.

And there IS Mac OS emulation for running on Windows. It's not called Vitrual Mac or anything though. It's called SoftMac and you can read about it and see screenshots of it at emulators_dot_com.

[RobinC]

I use VirtualPC here for running Linux on my WinXP box, I also emulate an Amiga 24/7. Personally if I had to run two different versions of windoze I'd use vpc, if nothing else it means you can reset the "fake", without losing the real one ;-)

[mil2k]

Does anyone know if you can have 2 operating systems installed on the same PC?

Yes. The Max I have gone is upto 3 ;)

But you need to plan this out carefully. Are you planning to load 2 different versions of same Windows or different versions. If it's Windows 9x version and XP (or NT) you want to load then its easy. First load the 9x version and then the NT or XP version. (Be careful to choose different Partitions and while Installing the second version of windows choose New install and not Upgrade.). If both are XP Versions then also you can follow similar procedure. HTH :)