Advantages,Disadvantages and Tips to Multiboot

Here are the advantages and disadvantages of multiple windows in one PC and tips to multi-boot Windows 7 with Windows XP:

• Advantages of multi-boot
• Disadvantages of multi-boot
• Tips to multi-boot

Advantages of multi-boot:

        Having multiple operating systems can make troubleshooting easier and when you try something that doesn’t work with one operating system you can try it on the other. If you have installed Windows 7 over Windows XP on your system, you can execute programs in Windows XP that are not compatible with Windows 7.

Disadvantages of multi-boot:

       To use more than one operating system in your computer, you need to have plenty of hard disk space. If, for example you have a 120GB hard drive and have two operating systems installed, they will consume a lot of storage space, especially Windows 7. The only disadvantage will be slow performance, since Windows 7 does consume a lot of resources.

Tips to multi-boot:

•   In order for Windows 7 to operate alongside Windows XP you need to create another primary partition on your hard-drive.
•  To install Windows 7, you need to have a partition of 16 GB. You need to ensure the memory requirements of Windows 7 and Windows XP. 
• While installing Windows 7 and Windows XP on your computer, you need to have the device drivers that are compatible with both the operating systems. 
• You need to defragment your hard disk before creating a new partition. It may help prevent data loss.