Possible to run Zorin & WinXP in same window?

A newbie question here......
Is it possible to run Zorin & WinXP both in the same window?
I have a 2nd hard drive (D) installed, (not a C drive partitioned)
Can I run Zorin with Thunderbird & Firefox on one drive, with internet connection (for security)
and do Win XP with my Graphics (Corel Draw) off line on the other drive?
I'm willing to learn a new OS with Zorin, but have over 4k files of Corel, and it's a must have.
My last resort may be to use Wine, but wondering if possible?
TIA

IBM Thinkcenter M51
Drive C 80 gig
Drive D 160 gig
3 GB ram

Hi and welcome to Zorin! I'm afraid you can't have seamless OS operations like you can on a Mac with software that allows you to seamlessly switch from one OS to another - the only way you could do this would be to install XP to a Virtual Machine using Virtual Box. As for Corel Draw there may be some issues with WINE to get it to run:

http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibilit ... search=app

There is nothing to stop you from booting into XP so long as you keep your network card disabled - you would have a choice at boot time as to which OS you want to boot into but you could not run both unless you had a virtual XP install as stated above.

Thanks Swarfender437,
I've done some web research about your Virtual Machine idea.
That may be my best bet.
Would it be best to have Zorin on my C drive, just for web/email
and do my graphic work on the F drive with Corel & WinXP?
Or best to flip them?
Already have made a CD of scaled down WinXP with NLite
(my first post had my slave as D, my mistake, it is F)

Hi,

I don't do it myself, try this:

http://www.wikihow.com/Install-Windows- ... VirtualBox

I cannot give you any advice about which drives to use as I cannot see what layout you have!.

If your Win XP is on C: leave it there! Windows should always always be at the 'start' of a Hard Drive - Linux second - or you will be asking for trouble down the line!

Hello just a quick note DO need wolf's warning about disabling the network card inside. XP
As a study posted a few years ago, found that an unprotected xp computer could be compromised in 5 minutes. That was before support ended, so I imagine you could be compromised even faster than that.
Recently while installing zorin on an xp machine, I was shreding personal files and I had connected to the internet to download the latest update to malware bytes. After running a full scan and finding nothing I was going out for dinner so I thought what the heck and ran another one. Sure enough when I got back it had found quite a few little nasties that had gotten there In The two hours I was gone.

botcrusher wrote:Hello just a quick note DO need wolf's warning about disabling the network card inside. XP
As a study posted a few years ago, found that an unprotected xp computer could be compromised in 5 minutes. That was before support ended, so I imagine you could be compromised even faster than that.
Recently while installing zorin on an xp machine, I was shreding personal files and I had connected to the internet to download the latest update to malware bytes. After running a full scan and finding nothing I was going out for dinner so I thought what the heck and ran another one. Sure enough when I got back it had found quite a few little nasties that had gotten there In The two hours I was gone.

Apologies to Wolfman, I have NOT stolen your ID - botcrusher has!

http://www.zoringroup.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=6993#p33102

Woops! Sorry about that I'm on a mobile device and thought I was reading a different post XD