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K3rupt

K3rupt

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Hello All Again In For Yet Another Question

Ok, I just purchased yet another seagate 320GB Sata2 Hdd, And what i want to do is Partition that up so it is:

Partition 1 = 200 Gig
Partition 2 = 120 Gig

That i know how to do with ease.

What i want to do is install Vista Ultimate onto Partition 2 But be able to still select to boot of my current hard drives containing XP

How would i go about doing this?

Would i install Vista onto Partition 2, Then boot into XP

Edit the boot.ini file with:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

I just want too see what people here say before i go about doing it.

Thanks,

K3
 
LOL! at the Vista Destroying boot.ini files and replacing it with A GUI Interface...
Thanks mate, Helped heaps, Easy as Finding PI.
 
Now, if you are using two different physical drives (not just 2 partitions on the same drive), you could try shutting down the computer and disconnecting the drive with XP on it (I'm assuming XP is already installed), then install Vista to the other drive. Then plug both drives in and use your BIOS boot menu (F11?) to choose which drive, and thus which OS, to boot from.

Now, I've not tried this with Vista, so I don't know how it will react when your reboot with both drives connected (whether it will see the XP installation and want control, or it may just see it at new hardware), but this works well with XP and Linux distros.
 
munkyeetr said:
Now, if you are using two different physical drives (not just 2 partitions on the same drive), you could try shutting down the computer and disconnecting the drive with XP on it (I'm assuming XP is already installed), then install Vista to the other drive. Then plug both drives in and use your BIOS boot menu (F11?) to choose which drive, and thus which OS, to boot from.

Now, I've not tried this with Vista, so I don't know how it will react when your reboot with both drives connected (whether it will see the XP installation and want control, or it may just see it at new hardware), but this works well with XP and Linux distros.
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Has anyone ever tried to different physical drives yet. I'm stuck here and dont want to go through the trouble of reinstalling vista again... takes forever
 
There is a program i found on google where when the computer boots up it shows all available bootable things - ie. more than one OS, REmovable media, floppy cd etc... automaticlly dettects xp and vista ive used it before its great o i cant rmeber what i type din google tho
 
taylormsj said:
There is a program i found on google where when the computer boots up it shows all available bootable things - ie. more than one OS, REmovable media, floppy cd etc... automaticlly dettects xp and vista ive used it before its great o i cant rmeber what i type din google tho
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Search for "Boot Managers" in Google. I believe that is what you are referring to. I haven't used them except with Linux (GRUB), so I can't recommend any one in particular.
 
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