Is it a good idea to dual-boot an OS just for one reason?

On this Gateway MX6454, I have two OSes: Windows Vista Business, and Windows 7 Professional. The Vista partition is my main one, and the 7 partition is my TinyChat partition that I only use for streaming music to the TinyChat chatroom that I go to daily. My partitions are down below, as Vista has the majority, and I only gave 7, 21GB of room to be in and it's almost full. Is it a good idea to keep these partitions for that reason or have I gone insane and I should delete that 7 partition? Oh and I installed 7 to broadcast music with Virtual Audio Cable, and I know it works on Vista, but I want to listen to what I am broadcasting as well. alt text

asked Nov 22 '11 at 09:40

DJ Scooby Doo
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edited Nov 22 '11 at 13:41

Fogarty ♦♦
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Vista for me is a good OS, I had 7 and XP on this comp, XP is getting ancient for me, even though its still a strong compeditor, Vista RAM hogs, but it works fast. 7 works like Vista, but overheats my laptop faster.

(Nov 23 '11 at 13:14) DJ Scooby Doo

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Really, you should be getting rid of the Vista partition if at all possible. If your Windows 7 one has Windows XP mode or you can install Vista in a virtual machine, then you should have no problem.

answered Nov 22 '11 at 13:58

HerpDerp
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I like Vista, it's perfect on this laptop, and 7 just gives me BSOD's if I did a full installation of all of my programs.

(Nov 22 '11 at 21:28) DJ Scooby Doo

Keep it. If you run of room, just boot into something called Puppy Linux (google it) and use gparted to give you more room. If you have questions, please comment.

answered Nov 23 '11 at 14:47

gppl
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Gparted actually has its own live CD/USB distro.

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

(Nov 24 '11 at 13:21) AlanStryder

Never heard of that, looks cool.

(Nov 24 '11 at 21:28) gppl

For your reason dual-booting is not really a viable solution. I would suggest virtualization instead of dual-booting.

I dual-boot for video editing, program compiling and for gaming. Running most server services can be on a normal computer, but it also depends on your preference. I'd say just emulate your system for the server and leave it as an always-on PC.

answered Nov 24 '11 at 21:33

DerekWyland
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If I virtualize 7, it's going to be a bad option, IMO because I broadcast video as well using ManyCam and I think it will be choppy and the audio would sound worse than if I used it as a dual-boot system.

(Nov 25 '11 at 23:04) DJ Scooby Doo

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