On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 10:24:02 -0800, John T <John
Hi,
I have the prerealease cantitdate 1 DVD coming, I have XP on an IDE drive
and I want to put Vista on a SATA drive and do a dual boot (no RAID). I know
what to do but I want to make sure it will work (having on OS on a IDE drive
and one on a SATA)
Vista boots just fine on a SATA or SATA-II drive. I've installed,
booted, and used it with little or no trouble on my Maxtor SATA-II
drive, connected to my Apple Intel iMac. How it works on an
IDE-connected drive, I don't really know. Since my drive shows up in
Vista or XP as an IDE drive, I would assume it does. After all, SATA
is just a standard for connecting drives, not a type of drive itself,
while IDE is a type of drive as well as a standard for connecting
drives.
If possible, I do advise you to get hold of RC2. RC1 is very
unfinished. RC2 is much more stable and usable.
Also, if your keyboard/mice are Microsoft products, download the NEW
Microsoft 6.02 drivers for Vista, since its kind of difficult to get
the Microsoft ITPro/ITtype 5.5 drivers working properly and
consistently with Vista.
Donald L McDaniel
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