Hello

I am building a new system, I have Vista ultimate and XP Pro. I want them on separate hard

drives. I have been told to install XP on one HD, then while installing Vista it will ask me where

to put it, and just direct it to the second HD.

 

Any thoughts or suggestion are appreciated.

 

Richard

I have XP Pro installed on drive 0 and installed Vista Ultimate on drive 1

while signed into XP which has the advantage of defeating Vista's propensity

for re-lettering every drive.

So, yes, do as you said.

You might want to install a bootloader in XP to make life easier with the

dual boot. EasyBCD: http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1 or VistaBootPro:

http://www.vistabootpro.org/ These allow you to alter the boot order or

rename the systems.

 

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Peter

Toronto, Canada

XP Pro SP2 x 2 + Vista Ultimate

"Richard" <kdsusa@tampabay.rr.com.remove> wrote in message

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> Hello

> I am building a new system, I have Vista ultimate and XP Pro. I want them

> on separate hard

> drives. I have been told to install XP on one HD, then while installing

> Vista it will ask me where

> to put it, and just direct it to the second HD.

>

> Any thoughts or suggestion are appreciated.

>

> Richard

>

Depends on what your future plans are. If your XP drive is the system drive

(first in boot order) then you will end up with your boot files for Vista

and XP on the XP drive. If, down the road you want to remove XP or Vista

you will have boot problems.

I would personally install XP, then disconnect the XP drive or change the

Vista drive to first in boot order before installing Vista. If you change

boot order you will have the most versatile system. You will be able to

boot with either drive first in boot order and with the Vista drive as your

system drive you will have dual boot capability.

This assumes you have full versions of both systems. If you have an upgrade

version of Vista you don't any longer have the license to use XP after

installing Vista.

 

"Richard" <kdsusa@tampabay.rr.com.remove> wrote in message

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> Hello

> I am building a new system, I have Vista ultimate and XP Pro. I want them

> on separate hard

> drives. I have been told to install XP on one HD, then while installing

> Vista it will ask me where

> to put it, and just direct it to the second HD.

>

> Any thoughts or suggestion are appreciated.

>

> Richard

>

Hi Richard

I tried putting Vista in charge, well I had to really because my new

system came with Vista startup image preloaded on the main drive in a

hidden partition.

Once I had Vista up and running, I installed my XP drive and used bios

boot selection to run one or the other. That worked fine but was a

pain, but necessary because some of my older programs were not

acceptable to Vista.

So I did some research and downloaded easyBCD and vistaboot pro, hoping

to be able to set up a dual boot selection without modifying the bios

each time I wanted to swap.

I never did get a stable system, although I tried all sorts of tricks.

The main problem was, with Vista in control, I could not re-install my

winXP to get rid of any problems, as on first re-boot during setup, the

XP drive would be lost.

The only way was to disconnect my Vista sata drive and then re-install

XP separately.

In the end, I gave up and reformatted the sata and loaded XP.

 

The one thing I could not do, is what you hope to do, that is load XP

first followed by Vista. I just didn't have a startup disk.

 

So, good luck. I think it might work, but you will be hardly getting

help from Microsoft, they are a bit one eyed about Vista.

 

I am still smarting from having to flush expensive software down the

toilet, so it might be a while before I try Vista again and only when

all suppliers have compatible drivers for their software.

 

Bobthequill

 

 

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