
But you didn't mentioned which version of 7 you have as well. So it might be a good time for you to decided to go 7 since you have 7 now. And if you noticied they do have W7圆4 and it has more hardware and software support as well better then XP圆4 does. I myself not a fan of dual boot unless your needing it to diagnosis customers computers or a custom builder and need to test hardware and software. You might want to check those software site to see if they have updates to their programs so it will work under 7 as well.

Also most programs that can run in XP will run and install on 7 with some tinkering but I got my XP programs to load fine with 7.

Click to expand.First off how big is your first HDD? If it is sufficient you can install both O/S on the same HDD and do a dual boot from that HDD? Also can only loose your data from corrupted HDD and not backing up the data.
