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Multi-Boot
Most of us know that running a dual, triple, quad or even a sexaboot is fairly simple and straight forward with WIndows. You simply install each operating system in the order from oldest to newest. 32 bit being older than 64 bit.
That being said, I've concocted a video of a sexaboot "Six OS Boot". We have: xp pro 32 3D Optimized xp pro 32 Vista Ultimate 32 Vista Ultimate 64 Windows 7 x86 Windows 7 x64 All on one boot loader, choose you're os and boom, you're in it to win it. WHy? Because some games run smoother in certain operating systems than others. Mostly, because certain benchmarks run faster in certain operating systems than others. It can be DONE! |
Ok you used a terrabyte drive for all this, how did you do the actual setup with partitions and order of installing OS's ?
btw as I said in MSN Love Iron Man :) But... driving in LA on I-5 I play this :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYRC4H64EFk |
so your saying I dont need 10 harddrives anymore ;)
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I'm saying with the all new "Drive-WOW" you don't ever need to run 10 hard-drives again!
Just set it and.......................................'FORGET IT!' Here's the low down: Installed XP on to a 15 gig partition, XP#2 onto another 15 gig partition, Pop in vista disk Vista on a 20 gig Vista on another 20 gig, pop in 7 c.d. 7 on a 20 7 on a 20 Now, Gents, Wench and Gentile's (hopefuly none in the audience) pop in you're Image For Dos from terabyte unlimited, back up the entire 7 partition install and never install an OS again! What? You're worried about wanting to resotre individual partitions? Well, craikee, pop in that Image For Dos c.d., click restore, choose which partition you want to restore and BLAM, you've got specific restoration. For a nominal fee, I can keep poking and prodding Terabyte Unlimited for a promo code for our kickass membership. (J/K on the fee but I've been soliciting them for support here). |
Nice
I hope you used your Vista disk to format and make all of those partitions, and not your XP disk ;) :) Also good idea to ask if the terbyte unlimited matches partition alignment. (Vista uses an even alignment so each sector does not span more than one. XP does not, and 7 puts that stupid 100MB partition on first. |
Made the partitions on the fly with each os disk. The latter, Mojave's as you refer to them were installed as logical partitions.
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I editted, but you were too quick :p
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Hey Kal, when you use your image for DOS on a fresh bench install, how long would a reinstall take? I here Acronis only takes a couple minutes to be back to benching if you hose the OS.
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A couple minutes will have all six os running on Terabyte as well. For this particular backup, I used Maximum compression so just about 130gigs was compressed into a 15gig single file back up that can process specific or all partitions.
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Oh nice. Might just buy this instead :D
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I am a big Acronis fan, but if we can get a benchmarker's special, I am in :)
Should work nicely on my USB boot drive :) |
Recreating my boot stick now :) (going to image as soon as I get all the futuremark stuff installed on 7 :)
32 Minutes to create a max compression backup of my TB raid stripe (40-50 GB used spanning 4 partitions to ~10GB in 4 files) Little slow but works on raid arrays which can sometimes be an issue LOL oops on of the backups was a waza folder :p |
Sounds good homie :D
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Wow looks cool but driver updates must be a killer ........:Dizzy:
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Rebuilding my array with a 4 boot setup :) V64, 7-32 and 2 WinFLP installs. (one 2D one old school 3D) Imaging it BEFORE I install drivers so should work well if I swap out mobos :) |
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You may run into some problems swapping boards, especially if the chipsets differ too much, since windows registers devices during install.... You'll know when you do. I've had a project going on for a while where I am attempting to create the ultimate install usb stick.... It's a much bigger task than I originally thought, since different os's use different loaders and what-not. |
I have swapped boards alot. I would not recommend anyone else doing it, but so far I have no had trouble but I have not gone from a socket 462 Athlon to an X58 intel chipset yet lol
Uninstall proprietary drivers (IE chipset) things of that nature power down swap stuff. Power up, wait restart boot back up and install new drivers. I will be swapping out for a better X58 board next so do not expect any difficulties at all. I will have a post driver install imaging as well. |
The multi-boot madness continues......................
Video coming up on the Overclockaholics Channel on Youtube shortly displaying several operating systems on one boot loaded on one hdd. Goes something like this..... 1-Win XP Pro KN 32 bit 2-XS OS 32 bit 3-Stripped 3D xp 32 bit 4-XP Pro 64 bit 5-Server 2003 R2 32bit Enterprise 6-Server 2003 R2 64bit Enterprise 7-Vista Ultimate 32 bit 8- Vista Ultimate 64 bit 9-Server 2008 R2 32 bit Datacenter Full 10-Server 2008 R2 64 bit Datacenter Full 11-Windows 7 Starter Edition 12- ***** No Room Left ***** Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit 13-******No Room Left***** Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit I miscalculated the sizes that the partitions needed to be for each os. Trial and error. Now I know how much actual space each operating system occupies on its individual partition and compensate for page file and room for 3D benchmark apps and it should be a sweet deal finding out which os has the top guns. |
WOW!!
That's a lot of OS's. What size drive are you loading these on ? |
IF you are trying to cram Vista/7 onto a 15GB partition, you can do it, you just need to go in and disable pagefile/hibernation and system restore :) Frees up a good 6-10GB depending on RAM installed
As I said via PM, I had Windows 7 at about 7.5GB install size just from those tweaks. Was good for a bench OS but one game install filled the rest of the drive LOL |
Oh Boy.... Something new to try!!!!:D
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The video goofed up. Gonna have to make another one. :argh:
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Made a new video and decided to do some wprime32m testing. I can tell you that the results/comparisons so far are amazing. Could be the next pot of gold comparison in the making.
Here's the vid: |
The quick test system:
EVGA E762 + Intel Xeon 3570 @ 4.15ghz GTX Classified 285 (Single) single stick of 2gb ram And here is some hard data: xp_Pro_32_kn Results: wprime: 1st- 8.468sec 2nd- 6.937sec 3rd- 6.843sec 4th- 6.843sec 5th- 6.765sec 6th- 6.765sec 7th- 6.765sec 8th- 6.765sec 9th- 6.734sec 10th-6.734sec ______________________________________________ xs_os Results: wprime 32m: 1st- 7.756sec 2nd- 7.593sec 3rd- 7.593sec 4th- 7.515sec 5th- 7.515sec 6th- same 7th- same 8th- same 9th- same 10th- same ________________________________________ 3Dxp Results: wprime32m: 1st- 8.125sec 2nd- 6.859sec 3rd- 6.812sec 4th- same 5th- same 6th- same 7th- 6.781sec 8th- same 9th- same 10th-same ________________________________________ XP x64 results: wprime32m: 1st- 6.906sec 2nd- 6.766sec 3rd- 6.75sec 4th- 6.718 5th- same 6th- same 7th- same 8th- same 9th- same 10th-same __________________________________________________ ________ Server2003_datacenter_r2 x86: wprime32m: 1st-6.64sec 2nd-6.625sec 3rd-6.594sec 4th-same 5th-6.562sec 6th-same 7th-same 8th-same 9th-same 10-same ____________________________________________ Server2003_datacenter_r2_x64: wprime32m: 1st-6.734sec 2nd-6.718sec 3rd-same 4th-6.687sec 5th-same 6th-same 7th-same 8th-same 9th-same 10th-same ____________________________________ VistaUltimatex86: wprime32m: 1st- 6.052sec 2nd- same 3rd- same 4th- 5.992sec 5th- same 6th- same 7th- same 8th- same 9th- same 10th-same ______________________________________ VistaUltimatex64: 1st- 6.224sec 2nd- 6.053sec 3rd- same 4th- same 5th- same 6th- same 7th- same 8th- same 9th- same 10th-same ______________________________________________ Server2008R2_Datacenter_Enterprisex86: wprime32m: 1st- 6.006sec 2nd- 5.958sec Speed King :broomstick: 3rd- same 4th- same 5th- same 6th- same 7th- same 8th- same 9th- same 10th-same ___________________________________________ Windows 7 Starter x86: Wprime32m: 1st- 6.155sec 2nd- 6.115sec 3rd- same 4th- same 5th- same 6th- same 7th- same 8th- same 9th- same 10th-same |
OMG you have SO MUCH testing to do hahahahaha. I really feel sorry for you. Quite the surprise on the fastest for wprime though :D
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Overclockaholics would be holding the Hwbot Record for i7 920 wprime 32m right now if we had this information while x-mas benching with TheDarkN8 the other week. |
Yep, but you can always fill the dewar back up :D
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Sweet call I had read recently that Vista was better than 7 for benching in most everything, but that 2008 beats it, is sweet.
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hehehe
I wonder how Server 2008 is gonna do is super pi? |
Oh less headbanging when running hte video camera next time :p
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Multiboot not to hard once you learn to use the install disc to fix/rebuild your boot loaders .
XP recovery consule: "fixboot" "fixmbr" (press "Y" after each command. "Exit" to restart) Vista/W7 recovery consule: "bootrec fixboot" "bootrec fixmbr" (press "Y" after each command. "Exit" to restart) Once you get this down you can install OSes in any order and not worry about overwriting bootloaders or learning grub. |
You still have to run the recovery console in the right order though. Windows XP first then Vista/7 (well technically if you install XP last you only need to run the other RCs :) )
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easyBCD is a good proggy to fix and rebuild what boots you. Even handles GRUB... me likey. :thumbsup:
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Yep, XP/Win2K first and Vista/W7 loader fix last. :thumbsup:
Used easyBCD a couple years ago. All went well until I used it on both my XP and Vista and ended up with multiple boot options to OSes that didn't exist. I should give it another try. |
LOL, funny you mention that... I used to do that to keep the ex out of my shit. I had a Grub loader over the Vista bl that pointed to the wrong partitions.... If she learned how to get into one part, I'd change it to something else.... now THAT was fun. :D
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