Any assistance greatfully received.

And yes you can run a 32 bit and 64 bit system on the same computer, just not from the same hard drive. If you have two internal drives, unplug one of them, and then load the OS you want one the active drive. Then do the opposite – now unplug the one you just used, plug in the one that was unplugged, and install the other OS. Now you have two drives – one with the 32 bit OS on it, and one with the 64 bit OS on it, and both of them are configured to work with your existing hardware. This is where it gets tricky, though. There are two ways that I know of to load the OS of choice. One is to physically unplug (power or data) the drive that you do NOT want to load, and just fire up the system. If both your drives are SATA, the BIOS should find the MBR on the one drive that has a connection to the motherboard and load the OS on it. The second option is to set up the MBR on the first priority disk to check for other OSs and allow it to give you 10 seconds or so to pick the OS that you want to load (Linux users will be familiar with the GRUB loader – Windows has a similar loader, but less intuitive, of course). After the BIOS post, you should see the menu dual-boot loader come up asking you which OS you want to load, with a little clock down below that is counting down the seconds until it begins loading the OS from the first-priority drive. In the menu, select the desired OS, hit enter, and bob’s your uncle.

Personally, I have a smaller hdd (80 GB) that I installed Windows XP on, which mostly just sits in my top drawer. Since I have SATA interfaces on the front and rear of my case, I can use a SATA cable to plug in my XP hdd from the outside. Then I just go into the BIOS and change the boot order if I want to boot from the external SATA hard drive. This way I’m not having to crack open my case when I want to do something in XP.

And for the love of God, why can’t Microshaft make an OS that runs as smoothly, cleanly, and fast as the FOSS community does with Linux distros? Jesus Christ I’m so tired of all the laggy, bloated, slow as hell OSs these assholes keep cranking out. Honestly, I boot to Ubuntu 4 out of 5 times for general computing, and the only reason I keep Windows around is for more complex software programs (like video editing/authoring) and games, but that’s it. I think Vista is the new Windows ME – total fucking disaster. Hopefully the code is more clean and fast in Windows 7… but I doubt it will be.

LINUX RULES.

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no matter what microsoft pulls off, no matter what any company pulls off, there is always and i mean always a work around. But maybe if they never made such a ridiculously buggy and incompatible operating system a absolutely appauling cost. Maybe people wouldn’t need to do pirating. After all, if people never used pirated versions of windows, imagine how much money they wouldve spent on microsoft by now and they still wouldnt be satisfied, and probably never will be. I know i am not satisfied, in fact i completely despise microsoft windows full-stop, every single version has been a failure, why rather than fooling around with upgrades, cant they just get it right first time. Surely they can get it right, considering bill gates brain is the “most expensive thing on the earth” pretty soon people will lose faith in windows and move onto macintosh, i am already planning on getting a macintosh. Im sick of windows fucking me around, and linux isnt exactly very user friendly and i dont have the time to learn it i have more important goals in life. Thing is though, linux is better than windows and it is free it doesnt cost anything and i guarantee if macintosh were made for pc’s it would be free aswell, in fact i hear they have designed a mac os x for x86 computers, but i havent bothered with it yet coz i doubt it would work well or possibly not even detect the hardware in my computer, Maybe when i get an external hard drive i will test it out. But until then, the whole point of this post is..

MICROSOFT IS THE MOST UNRELIABLE COMPANY IN THIS WORLD, THEY PROVIDE SERVICES FOR THEIR CUSTOMERS YES BUT THEY ARE ONLY PROVIDING SERVICES FOR THE FUCK UPS THEY MADE IN THE FIRST PLACE, AND THE OPERATING SYSTEM IS HIGHLY OVERPRICED CONSIDERING MY BROTHER MAKES HIS OWN OPERATING SYSTEMS FOR LINUX WITH EASE AND THEY ARE A LOT BETTER THAN WINDOWS AND CAN EVEN RUN WINDOWS PROGRAMS WITH A WINDOWS EMULATOR CALLED WINE AND IT EVEN RUNS GAMES FAST TOO!!!!

I advise anyone reading this, who does not agree with me to look it up on google, u’ll probably find millions of posts saying windows sucks and mac os or linux os are well better. Linux has never ever crashed, never gotten a bug, never pissed me off, never set me back like £120, and never let me down whenever i have used it whereas windows constantly pisses me off every time i use it and whoever says, ur wrong microsoft rules blah blah blah, u r all noobs dont know what you are talking about, and are foolish because your only going to smash up ur computer one day in frustration because of windows lol wont even be the machines fault, inabit!!