dual boot

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i have two drives c and d both 60 gig
i have xp on c and would like to put vista on d drive how do you do that
can it be done please help thanks

 

[Timothy Daniels]

i have two drives c and d both 60 gig
i have xp on c and would like to put vista on d drive.
how do you do that
can it be done please help thanks

It can be done easily, and as with WinNT/2K/XP,
the dual boot option will be set up automatically by
the Vista installer. The best NG for details is
microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup .
Try using some punctuation marks for the best
response.

Another way to set up dual- or multi-boot is to
install the OSes independently on each HD, that is,
with only the HD on which you want the OS as the
one connected. The installer will see only the one HD
during the installation process, and the HD's boot files
will be set up to boot just that OS. Later, with all HDs
connected, you can select which HD controls the
booting by setting the Hard Drive Boot Order in the
BIOS, putting the HD with the OS you want at the
head of the list of HDs. In that scenario, the running
OS will always call its partition "C:", and it will name
the other partitions, including those containing the
other OSes, something else. But as long as the OS's
files don't have shortcuts pointing to other named
partitions, it doesn't matter that the other partitions
are given different names.

*TimDaniels*

 

[Timothy Daniels]

i have two drives c and d both 60 gig
i have xp on c and would like to put vista on d drive
how do you do that
can it be done please help thanks

If you use the BIOS's Hard Drive Boot Order to
select the HD which controls booting, it helps to
have the HD of differing capcities. In some BIOS's
(e.g. my Dell's Phoenix Technologies BIOS), the
HDs are identified on-screen by the model nos. -
which, for HDs of the same manufacturer, model,
and capacity, are identical. If your two 60GB HDs
are identical in that way, your BIOS may give them
identical IDs in the on-screen setup procedure.
Check your BIOS to see how they are displayed.

*TimDaniels*

 

[mikeyhsd]

if you directly boot from the Vista DVD and install to the "D" drive Vista will label it "C".
if you start the install from within the XP system Vista will then take the drive letter you would expect to be assigned to that drive "D". in your case.
in either case, the proper dual boot menu will be set up.

only complication found SO FAR is when you boot from Vista back to XP the restore points get wiped out.



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i have two drives c and d both 60 gig
i have xp on c and would like to put vista on d drive how do you do that
can it be done please help thanks

 

[peter]

The Vista bootloader is an entirely different animal than the XP one.If you
dual boot in the normal manner and then decide to only use one OS you would
need an outside program to correct the Vista boot loader. Most people seem
to be able to do this easily...I and some others did not.Good thing it was a
test machine because I ended up formatting all.
My suggestion for dual booting is to disconnect the drive that XP is
installed on and then install Vista onto the remaining drive.
It is a dual boot............but you need to decide thru the BIOS which HD
will be the Boot Drive.On my system I can push F12 on boot up and the BIOS
will display the list of HD and I can chose which to boot from.Other systems
you will need to manually enter the BIOS each time you boot to make that
choice.
you choice
peter

 

[mikeyhsd]

VistaBootPro which can be run from either XP or Vista is a very easy program to use to adjust modify remove boot loaders for either OS.
your method even though it works is a bit much to use in having to direct via the bios which os to boot each time, compared to a boot loader which allows you to select from on screen prompts.





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The Vista bootloader is an entirely different animal than the XP one.If you
dual boot in the normal manner and then decide to only use one OS you would
need an outside program to correct the Vista boot loader. Most people seem
to be able to do this easily...I and some others did not.Good thing it was a
test machine because I ended up formatting all.
My suggestion for dual booting is to disconnect the drive that XP is
installed on and then install Vista onto the remaining drive.
It is a dual boot............but you need to decide thru the BIOS which HD
will be the Boot Drive.On my system I can push F12 on boot up and the BIOS
will display the list of HD and I can chose which to boot from.Other systems
you will need to manually enter the BIOS each time you boot to make that
choice.
you choice
peter

 

[Timothy Daniels]

VistaBootPro which can be run from either XP or Vista
is a very easy program to use to adjust modify remove
boot loaders for either OS.
your method even though it works is a bit much to use
in having to direct via the bios which os to boot each time,
compared to a boot loader which allows you to select
from on screen prompts.

(MikeyHSD, please post in plain text so your text
can be quoted.)

The BIOS doesn't have to be used each boot time.
It just has to be used to *change* which HD boots.
And that is also done by on-screen menu - one that the
BIOS puts up. The advantage to using the BIOS is
that you don't need multi-boot software to boot entirely
disparate OSes - such as a Windows OS and Linux,
or Win95 and Vista.

*TimDaniels*