Dual boot to Business and Home Premium?

1) Make three partitions, one for each OS, and install one OS on each.

2) Each time you boot, you should have a choice of all three OSs.

3) If you want to keep XP you have to do clean installs to new partitions,
no upgrades.

4) I doubt it. But I've never done it so I don't know for sure. Intuitively
though, there doesn't seem to be any reason why it would matter. They're
three separate OSs. Someone who has been there might tell you otherwise.



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"PRNole" <> wrote in message
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> Currently using XP SP2 and had been planning on ugrading to Home
> Premium (upgrade, not full version) over the next several weeks.
>
> Now, however, I find that the principal business related software I
> use for medical billing/accounting (Medisoft) will be tested ONLY for
> Vista's Business version. Period. They will NOT test or support other
> Vista vesions. IOW, I will need the Business version ONLY for this
> one application. So...my questions:
>
> 1. How can I install both Home Premium and Business in the same hdd,
> starting out with my XP SP2 OS, so that I can opt to boot into
> Business only when using Medisoft and re-boot into Home Premium for
> the rest of my home PC use?
>
> 2. Is it better to forgo the "upgrade" from XP SP2 and reformat my
> hdd, then install full versions of Business & Premium?
>
> 3.Does it matter which versions (Business or Premium) I install first
> in order to opt for dual boot?
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> Pete Nole
>
> .
>

Currently using XP SP2 and had been planning on ugrading to Home
Premium (upgrade, not full version) over the next several weeks.

Now, however, I find that the principal business related software I
use for medical billing/accounting (Medisoft) will be tested ONLY for
Vista's Business version. Period. They will NOT test or support other
Vista vesions. IOW, I will need the Business version ONLY for this
one application. So...my questions:

1. How can I install both Home Premium and Business in the same hdd,
starting out with my XP SP2 OS, so that I can opt to boot into
Business only when using Medisoft and re-boot into Home Premium for
the rest of my home PC use?

2. Is it better to forgo the "upgrade" from XP SP2 and reformat my
hdd, then install full versions of Business & Premium?

3.Does it matter which versions (Business or Premium) I install first
in order to opt for dual boot?

Thanks for any help!

Pete Nole

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"PRNole" <> wrote in message
news: oups.com...
> Currently using XP SP2 and had been planning on ugrading to Home
> Premium (upgrade, not full version) over the next several weeks.
>
> Now, however, I find that the principal business related software I
> use for medical billing/accounting (Medisoft) will be tested ONLY for
> Vista's Business version. Period. They will NOT test or support other
> Vista vesions. IOW, I will need the Business version ONLY for this
> one application. So...my questions:
>
> 1. How can I install both Home Premium and Business in the same hdd,
> starting out with my XP SP2 OS, so that I can opt to boot into
> Business only when using Medisoft and re-boot into Home Premium for
> the rest of my home PC use?
>
> 2. Is it better to forgo the "upgrade" from XP SP2 and reformat my
> hdd, then install full versions of Business & Premium?
>
> 3.Does it matter which versions (Business or Premium) I install first
> in order to opt for dual boot?
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> Pete Nole
>
> .
>

I'm not really answering your questions, but why not run everything as Vista
Business and not have the complexity of dual booting?

Knox

Another alternative would be to just run Ultimate. I know you said they will
only support Business but it seems highly unlikely that someone could write
software that would run correctly on Business but not Ultimate. Worst case
you would end up with Business and Ultimate instead of Business and Premium.

"PRNole" <> wrote in message
news: oups.com...
> Currently using XP SP2 and had been planning on ugrading to Home
> Premium (upgrade, not full version) over the next several weeks.
>
> Now, however, I find that the principal business related software I
> use for medical billing/accounting (Medisoft) will be tested ONLY for
> Vista's Business version. Period. They will NOT test or support other
> Vista vesions. IOW, I will need the Business version ONLY for this
> one application. So...my questions:
>
> 1. How can I install both Home Premium and Business in the same hdd,
> starting out with my XP SP2 OS, so that I can opt to boot into
> Business only when using Medisoft and re-boot into Home Premium for
> the rest of my home PC use?
>
> 2. Is it better to forgo the "upgrade" from XP SP2 and reformat my
> hdd, then install full versions of Business & Premium?
>
> 3.Does it matter which versions (Business or Premium) I install first
> in order to opt for dual boot?
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> Pete Nole
>
> .
>