deleting drive that vista dual boots off of

[Guest]

I have vista dual booting off my xp instal but the two instals are on
different hard drives. i do have another xp instal on the same drive as the
vista instal. (to recap twp xp instals on two different drives vista is dual
booting off the xp instal on the other drive but has another xp instal on teh
same drive)

so what i would like to know is if ia format the drive that vista dual boots
off of what will happen. since there wont be any boot files on the other
drive i dont know if its just going to over ride my good xp instal that is on
the same drive.

as of right now i have to go into BIOS and flip to my other drive to have
vista dual boot with my old xp instal and then i have to flip back to the
other drive that has vista and xp then xp will load since vista is setup to
dual boot with the other drive.

so what i want to do i delete the old xp instal and then have vista dual
boot with my new xp instal that is ont he same drive as vista.

i dont know if this is possible but i am guessing i need some one with exp.
in this to answer this question.

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Set the Vista volume as active in disk manager, then reboot the system to
the Vista DVD and run a startup repair. This should allow the boot files to
be written to the root of the drive with the XP/Vista dual boot. Then you
can erase/format/remove the other drive. You may need to use bcdedit to
re-add the XP volume to the bootloader afterwards, but it should show up
automatically.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

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