Install Windows XP and Windows 10 on the same machine.

[hAyO]

Good night!! First of all, thanks to everyone!! And I hope you have a good year, although with the increase in electricity...

Well, that makes me wonder, because yesterday someone told me about getting a PC (any one will do) that could run both Windows 10 and Windows XP at the same time (but without virtualizing). And the thing is as follows:

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
2x2GB DDR2 667
Radeon HD6450
500GB hard drive

The thing is that I tried to do as I always did with Windows 7 or Linux, (install the older OS, and then the newer one to take advantage of the boot of the second one). But it doesn't work!!.

Looking around the internet, I saw that it's something like the other way around, or doing a disk reduction of the previous system (seeing that you install 7 for the sake of saying something, and you reduce the size of the partition, create the one that will go 10 and install 10 there) so in principle it works.

The thing is that in Windows XP, you can't reduce it from ADMINISTRATIVE TOOLS (I imagine that from some third-party application you can).

Has anyone tried or looked into this?

Thanks in advance!!

[cobito]

So off the top of my head, I think you should leave a partition of a couple of gigabytes free. Once you have installed both systems in any order, you install a Linux distro and from Grub, you manage the boot partitions. You can even remove Linux from the boot and leave only the two Windows.

Reducing the partition doesn't make sense to me. It might work with Windows 7, but with Windows XP, the result should be the same as partitioning beforehand.

[hAyO]

justly I am testing now, in a few moments I will indicate how it is

[hAyO]

Achieved!! And in a peculiar way:
1 - We installed Windows XP with the entire hard drive operational.
2 - We continued to install EASEUS PARTITION MANAGER or similar, to reduce the partition, and create a new one named Windows 10 (Since the Windows XP disk manager is an old version and is not capable of doing so, with Windows 7 or 8 there is no problem because these can).
3 - After that we started the Windows 10 installer from the USB (in my case, it can also be from DVD).
4 - And voala! We already have the dual boot of Windows XP with Windows 10 ^_^

[cobito]

Alone I find myself.