can i make a dual boot...

[Zakspeed]

My raid mirror setup on my rig somehow failed, and now i have 2 seperate
drives. My primary drive has vista home premium (works ok), and now my 2nd
drive is like a backup or spare. i can access the data ok.
My question is rather than having the 2nd drive as a spare, i was thinking
about putting XP on it - a dual boot would be great i figure.
Is this possible on a rig that has had Vista on it for the last 6 months?
My mobo is a Asus Striker Extreme - but i cant see anything in the bios that
has anything to do with dual boot.
Can i reformat the spare drive and load XP on it and is there a way during
boot to select which drive to boot off of?

please help!
thanx

 

[Mike Hall - MVP]

My take is to disconnect the Vista drive, install XP and whatever onto what
is presently the second drive, and use BIOS to boot to either one. This is
what I do..

 

[Kevin Weaver]

My take is to disconnect the Vista drive, install XP and whatever onto
what is presently the second drive, and use BIOS to boot to either one.
This is what I do..

You need to get a boot mgr program. See, http://www.boot-us.com/screensh.htm

 

[Kevin Weaver]

My take is to disconnect the Vista drive, install XP and whatever onto
what is presently the second drive, and use BIOS to boot to either one.
This is what I do..

That would be a lot of fun. Go into the bios every time, make changes, save
and exit, reboot just to run the other os.

 

[Mike Hall - MVP]

It keeps them entirely separate. That is not a bad thing..

 

[Guest]

http://www.vistabootpro.org/

Have a look at the above link

Just make sure that there are XP drivers available from your mobo's
manufacturer's website for your mobo!