Hey all, I'm thinkin of going dual boot. I currently have a 250gb sata II hard drive with windows xp 32bit. I want to get a 74gb WD Raptor drive as well and put Windows Vista Ultimate on it basically for gaming. Is there a way of listing both hard drives so i can select which drive i want to boot from instead of going into the bios everytime and switchin them between primary & secondary boot devices? I don't want both operating systems on one hard drive. I would prefer them on seperate HD's because my 250gb drive is almost full. cheers for any help.
just boot the Vista CD / DVD & choose the raptor as the installation location & Vista will automatically recognise XP & set all BCD entries for you BTW: be very careful because XP & Vista always think they know best, however, we know that's crap Edit: that is how i would have done it before i came to HWF
ah right i see, thanks, im currently bidding on a raptor on ebay, gonna see if i can get it cheap. never done a dual boot system before. And i aint a big fan of windows vista, only using it to utilise direct x10. so what will happen once i install vista. when i turn my pc on will it ask me what OS i wanna boot? thanks for your help.
assuming you do it correctly, yeah BTW: you can multi boot many OSs easily, although i only achieved it with multiple Linuxes, but i've recently being playing with a real Vista box & yes, it makes a change from Debian - everything is too bl00dy easy Edit: or you can use a 3rd party boot manager - Click here to search google >> [google]boot managers[/google]
hey, right i've decided to scrap the plans with the raptor hard drive. I've freed up some space on my 250 gig sata II HD and have decided to install Vista on that, is this correct in what im going to do. First of all i downloaded a 3rd party partition software called EASEUS partition master home edition. and im going to re-size my current partition to 150gig. so i have 100 gig of unallocated space, then on that un allocated space im going to create another partition, restart the pc boot from vista disc and install vista on that 2nd partition. is all that correct or am i missing something?? and when i switch my pc on will a boot manager come up askin me wt OS i wanna boot? thanks
that software seems pretty generic & appears to be straight forward to use, so yeah well that's the theory BTW: i was adding loadsa crap about setting up a Linux System :doh:
As donkey said you won't need the bios because it will ask you what you want to boot up when you turn the computer on. On an old computer a while ago windows xp got installed twice somehow, so when I would boot it up it asked me if I wanted to boot up windows xp or windows xp. Should be the same thing, only one will say vista.
hey all just like to say it went sucessfully, really easy to do and i would recommended that program to anyone, real simple and easy to work. EASEUS partition master home edition
good, see some things may appear daunting to begin with but in reality it isn't, but all you need is someone whos been there & done it & occasionally look over your sholder & give advise well done mate BTW: maybe you'd be better using another NTFS partition to share info between OS's downloaded it yesterday & had a quick look at it before you used it, to check it out for you
yea i got two partitions both primary partitions in NTFS, yea that program is mint, proper simple. all you gotta do is resize current partition, create another partition on unallocated space. comp restarts it self and does the rest for u in a matter of mins. yea thanks again for checkin the program for me makin sure its right. cheers, really apreciate it.
good np, all i did is glance at the GUI & i figured "seem easy to use" after a while you can just look at an app and decide if its any good[ot]usually[/ot]
