Hi Larry, Yes, & no! I was able to put XP & Widows7 32 Bit on the same computer using just 1 harddrive but, when we tried to do the same with XP & Widows7 64 Bit, we had to use a second harddrive. Essentially what i have with the XP & the Widows7 64 Bit desktop is 2 500 gigibite drives with XP Pro on 1 drive & Widows7 Pro 64 Bit on the other drive. What had to install a third party boot manager, I think that's what it's called, to handle the dual boot system. We assigned XP Pro to be the default operating system so, the computer boots into the XP Pro OS on startup or reboot. If I want Widows7 64 bit to fire up, after starting or rebooting the computer, my desktop makes a beep sound, then I wait 20 seconds, arrow down 1 time, & press enter. Now, this is where the fun begins, Widows7 firesup! Joy, Joy, & more Joy!
I don't know how someone would do this with a laptop, being I've never heard a laptop make that beep sound like a desktop computer when Windows is starting, at least I think the beep represents that Windows start up screen?! I know someone can sure as hell explain this beep sound a lot more professionally that I am doing. On the desktop computer running XP Home & Widows7 32 Bit the boot-up process works the same as the 64 Bit computer except that, we didn't have to use a third party boot manager. Larry, if you have any more in depth questions, contact me off list & I'll hook you up with the geek, whoops I mean computer technician, that configured my computers. Hope this helped. Take care. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: Larry Stansifer To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 9:50 AM Subject: [JAWS-Users] 2 operating systems Hi Folks, I have an HP laptop running Windows 7 Premium, Office 2010 and Jaws 13.0638. My question is can I install Windows XP-Pro and office XP on the same machine and still have Jaws work with both operating systems and applications? My goal is to switch between operating systems. TNX Larry For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
