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Originally posted by johny
i'd have to install it in a partition and everysingle program again?caint i work with the old ones in the main hd?i know they arent registred but wont they work?
the problem is that each windows you install, has its own registry, and then if you have in windows xp the office suite, when you try to run ti from longhorn, he programs (word, etc...) will try to access the registry and they won't find the needed entries and won't work.
You can try to install again the programs in the same place where they're installed in the other OS, overwritting them, but i highy unrecommend this, because it may not work.
On the other hand, if you want to install XP and longhor, you'll have to install them in primary partitions (either with fat32 or ntfs) but when you boot one of them, the partition of the other has to be hidden. It's known that Windows'es can't handle properly 2 visible primary partitions * at the same time.
*-> 2 partitions that they can recognice (nfts, fat32). You can have an NTFS and an EXT2 primary partitions and all will go fine.
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