Dual boot with different hard drives

[Guest]

I have four physical hard drives, and I want to make a partition on my D:
drive specifically for vista. If I have my XP on my C: drive, and put vista
on its own partition on a different hard drive, will get a dual boot screen
when my computer boots up? I'd rather not make a new partition on the drive
that has XP on it. Also on a side note, does the media center remote work
with vista media center? Thanks.

 

[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

Yes, just make sure you launch setup from within XP and Custom when the
option is made available and select partition on the other drive you created
for Vista. The remote should work if your tuner is compatible with Vista.
Which brand and model is the remote?
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[Guest]

Thanks for the swift reply! I was reading something about the vista dual
boot screen, if I have the XP as my C: drive, will the regular old dual boot
screen show up at startup and let me pick the OS? Also, I'm using the
microsoft MCE remote, and my TV tuner is a Happauge PVR-150. Thanks again!

Ryan

 

[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

No, the Windows Vista boot manager takes over everything, XP is located
under Earlier Version of Windows entry which you will see when you boot your
PC. Select that and press enter.
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[Guest]

Thanks again! One more thing and I'll leave you alone. I plan on using
partition magic to create my new partition for vista. When I'm done using
the beta, can I just format that partition and fuse it together with the
other partition on the drive to go back to one large partition, or will I
have to backup that other partition and format the whole drive? Thanks.

 

[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

Yes, you can format the partition from within XP. I personally did
experience some issues trying to format the Vista partition from My Computer
in XP, I got a permission error, so I had to do the format from within
Partition Magic.

I would definitely backup my data before I merge back the partitions, there
is always a certainty of errors happening.
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