Add a 3rd HD for Vista

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Bill

I My OS is XP home with XP 2 - I have 2 HDS C & D - boot to C - clone C to D
as a back up periodically. Both these HDS are WD Raptors - 10K rpm.

I want to add another HD - make it "V" and install Vista Beta 2 on it. The
HD I want to add is a Maxtor 7200 rpm SATA 100GB drive 8MB cache.

I want to be able to boot to C to do my normal computer stuff, or V to play
around with Vista Beta 2. I have experience with this ''dual booting''
thing.

Can this be done?
Should it be done?

TIA

Bill
 
Change below to read - I have NO experience with ''dual booting'' - my bad


I My OS is XP home with XP 2 - I have 2 HDS C & D - boot to C - clone C to D
as a back up periodically. Both these HDS are WD Raptors - 10K rpm.

I want to add another HD - make it "V" and install Vista Beta 2 on it. The
HD I want to add is a Maxtor 7200 rpm SATA 100GB drive 8MB cache.

I want to be able to boot to C to do my normal computer stuff, or V to play
around with Vista Beta 2. I have experience with this ''dual booting''
thing.

Can this be done?
Should it be done?

TIA

Bill
 
I wouldn't use Vista on your main computer , There is way to many bugs for that , Its should be install on your second comp
Change below to read - I have NO experience with ''dual booting'' - my bad


I My OS is XP home with XP 2 - I have 2 HDS C & D - boot to C - clone C to D
as a back up periodically. Both these HDS are WD Raptors - 10K rpm.

I want to add another HD - make it "V" and install Vista Beta 2 on it. The
HD I want to add is a Maxtor 7200 rpm SATA 100GB drive 8MB cache.

I want to be able to boot to C to do my normal computer stuff, or V to play
around with Vista Beta 2. I have experience with this ''dual booting''
thing.

Can this be done?
Should it be done?

TIA

Bill
 
Thanks Paul,

I had Vista on my D drive for a day or two - I want to play around some more
with it but want to maintain my XP drive (C) and XP clone (D)

Off to "dual boot" school

Bill


It should work fine, I have 3 drive and run XP 32 bit, 64 bit and Vista.
 
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