Dual booting with Fista

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Dual booting with Fista

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Ive managed to get myself a legit copy of Fista (don't ask how). I was thinking of sticking it on just to see what its like, but don't want to lose XP. Anyone got any experience with dual booting it? If I try it, what are the odds of fucking up my XP install in the process?

If its a huge pain in the ass, I'll not bother. (dual booting, that is. I have a rough idea how much of a pain in the ass Fista is, but I want to try it anyway. Im a sucker for punishment.)
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piece of piss! It should ask you if you want to dual boot, and once the install is finished it will list Fista as default in the boot menu and XP as "Older versions of Windows"

I did it and was suprised at how easy it was to do
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Blimeh, hes not wrong.
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Post by Dr. kitteny berk »

Probably worth mentioning at this point that :sweep: Fista is more more of a pain to get to dual boot.
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Dr. kitteny berk wrote:Probably worth mentioning at this point that :sweep: Fista is more more of a pain to get to dual boot.
Very true this. Ive tried it before. It was horribly fail.
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Joose wrote:Very true this. Ive tried it before. It was horribly fail.
:above: it's something to do with the hacked to fuckery grub bootloader they use to spoof the oem bioses and such.
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I use Paragon Partition Manager to keep them completely unaware of each other. I used to always use Partition Magic, but they've been rather slow in making something that works in Fista. Even Paragon doesn't do resizing from within Fista 64.
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Post by cheeseandham »

Not had this problem personally (not saying it doesn't happen mind)
Dell machines with Fista, then dual booting with Ubuntu seem to work fine so far.
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