Have done dual boot or triple boot with xp in past, doing triple boot at the moment, 2 of windows 7 and one of 10.

As far as I am aware though I could very well be wrong, the MBR (master boot record) has to be on the oldest OS in this case xp, so that will be your active drive. If the MBR somehow becomes corrupted then 10 will probably not start and you will have a do a repair.

An invaluable tool to use for dual booting is easyBCD, I use it all the time.

Among the many things you can do with it, is for example clone an OS (like windows 7) to one of your partitions, then use easyBCD to point the boot sequence to that partition at computer start up, giving you a dual boot. Its not complicated to use, though you can mess up just clicking around on it. You can get a free copy though they have some chargeable plans.


http://neosmart.net/EasyBCD/


I never could get it to work with xp though unless the main active drive was xp.

I don't think there will be any problem installing windows 10 on f and keeping windows xp on c, but just in case you aren't aware you don't get a free upgrade from xp, only from 7 onwards.

As regards drive letters windows 10 when you boot it will see itself as c drive from within my computer( my pc) and if you boot to xp it will see itself as c as well.

No big problem as windows doesn't care about drive letters as someone told me once in a forum

musiclover

Last edited by musiclover; 05/01/16 11:06 AM.
Musiclover

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Windows 10 (64bit) M-Audio Fast Track Pro, Band in a Box 2025, Cubase 14, Cakewalk and far too many VST plugins that I probably don't need or will ever use smile