I have Vista on one Hard Drive. I have a spare hard drive that i want to put XP on. How do i get to choose which one i boot to when the PC loads up? I Want to put XP on the 2nd hard drive but be able to boot to either when the PC starts.
I have Vista on one Hard Drive. I have a spare hard drive that i want to put XP on. How do i get to choose which one i boot to when the PC loads up? I Want to put XP on the 2nd hard drive but be able to boot to either when the PC starts.
http://apcmag.com/5485/dualbooting_vista_and_xp
Will guide you through it
That is if you want to put it on the same drive as Vista. I want to install it on a separate drive.
Well from looking at it, its my guess its the same principle. You install Vista, install XP and then add XP to Vista's BCD. Job done.![]()
Last edited by Metier9; 18-04-2007 at 02:08 PM.
Just install XP on the second HDD. Then when you boot into Vista, just use Visat BootPRO to set up all the necessary menus, names and option selection times etc
http://www.vistabootpro.org/
You don't say whether you're using SATA or IDE drives, but just install XP to the second drive.
When you reboot it should prompt you to select which system you want to run, assuming you're set up to boot from both drives within the BIOS.
F8 helps too
I'm planning to run a dual boot config with XP and Vista on the system I'm planning.
Will the tutorial above work for a raid 0 drive configuration? I will be using an ASUS M2N32 Sli Deluxe mobo which I assume has hardware supported raid.
Not having used raid before I'm a little unsure of the actual setup steps for installing an OS on raid 0
You need the raid drivers for each of the OSs so they can see the RAID array. After that just partition the big drive. The RAID array will be classed as a one big physical drive and you just need to parition it up so you can install XP and Vista.
Forgive the seemingly basic question but where do I get the raid drivers (I assume they are available from MS via their website if thier not already included in the OS?) and what do you do with them once you have them?
Logically I would assume that you install the drivers after the OSs but if the OSs can't see the raid array then you can't install them and get the benefit of raid 0...![]()
As I say, I really am starting at ground zero with no knowledge of setting up and using raid arrays!
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