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[[HU]Obi]

Hi guys, Happy New Year All !

Let me make a suggestion to avoid the disappointing PU & HS installation struggles due to new and new Windows versions (and their bugs of course).

It is about using the so called external boot managers.

They offer more, fully independent opsys usage on the very same PC and harddisk, but in separated primary partitions.

So, if you have an XP running your various softwares (i.e. PU, HS etc.) very well, then you can keep it on your machine, while you start using and exploring newer Windows versions.

In order to make it possible, you have to install the individual operating systems on individual primary partitions. After that, complete the procedure by installing the tiny bootmanager software.

At system start (reset) you select the one from a menu you want to use - or let the default to start.

Boot managers can handle primary and the extended partitions (wich logical drives are created on (D:, E:, F: etc.). Those logical drives can be formatted to a data format, which is compatible with all the various opsys on primary.

That means, you can use the practically unlimited storage capacity of large harddisks to install programs, applications requesting big spaces on disk, if installing them on logical drives (matter of choice of course). For the systems in primary partitons is 10-15 Gb much more, then enough.

Operating systems usually have their own bootmanagers, but it is recommended to deactivate them, if the external is installed and working.

There is a plenty of external bootmanagers on the net, freeware even. I'm using a demo version of Masterbooter - tiny, robust and reliable, and well documented.

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Have a success with them !

[[HU]Obi]

I'm using a demo version ...

Anyway, I'm sorry for that ...