Hi there ,
I recently installed both Windows XP and windows Vista on my PC.First of all is it safe to use both……I can easily switch between both of them by restarting my pc…I just wanna know would it be safe to use both of them, it wont effect the efficency of my Workstation?????Plzzzzzzzzz Suggest

Jenny Clinton

You may have to define "safe."

Dual-booting is increasingly becoming popular among home PC users, partly because, it now involves not nearly the hassle you would except to go through many years ago setting up that type of arrangement.

If you know what you are doing - there is nothing to worry about. And as far as safety, there is nothing unsafe about the setup. I actually believe having two or more OS' on the same machine provides you a "screw up" & problem-solving safety net on many levels.

Good luck!

Agreed with Sabertooth. I have WinXP and Puppy Linux on here, I hardly use Puppy but should I mess up XP bad, I could boot into Puppy and dump all my crap on an external, so it's all good. Puppy makes a good system for that as well.

Medion MIM 2080
Toshiba T2130CT
Macintosh Performa 450

All working wonderfully.

Depends on wheather you installed Vista on a separate partition or not.

Excellent point by Othehill. Putting two Operating Systems on one partition is asking for trouble.

Hey
i m bit Confused , shud i use both or shud I uninstall one of them, I dnt know,
well lets see, I was asking will it effect my PC's hardware ,its efficency n all that

Jenny Clinton

Do you have both installed to the C drive?