Hi there, first time here so hope all goes well.
Ok here is a little pc question.
a while ago i got another pc, it was second hand so i had no control of the spec. Anyway, this pc has 2 hard drives. these are listed as:
programs ( c: )
local disc ( D: )
whan i start the pc and press control panel those are the 2 hard drives i see, the 'D' drive has the largest ammount of gigabytes, (is that called memory)
D drive is around 100 gig
C drive is around 50 gig
anyway, lets go back a little, when i turn on my pc i get a option of 2 windows XP to start, basically i just start the first one which is the 'D' drive and the largest ammount of gigabytes. all my programs are installed on this drive and this is the drive i always use.
I have 'booted' up the other drive before but there is only windows xp installed but no graphics card drivers, or any thing else, no modem ets, so i do not use it.
Ok, when i got rid of my last pc i took all the inside out and saved the hard drive this hard drive is 120 gig. So what i have done is put this hard drive into my pc tonight and rebooted it, when the pc started i got an installation message telling me that my pc had found new hardware. Once my pc loaded i clicked 'my computer' and it was shown as:
programs ( c: )
local disc( D: )
local disc ( F: )
so now this new hard drive is 'F' drive.
Now this is the question i would like a answer to.
'D' drive is windows XP, along with 'C' drive which has no progams installed and no grahpics cards etc.
I have a Windows Vista DVD and what i was thinking could i install this to the 'F' drive and still have XP on 'D' drive.
what im hoping for is if i do install Vista, when i start my pc will it say 'C' 'D' drive windows XP and 'F' drive windows Vista, so i can choose which OS i want to use.
If this is the case i would like to install Vista andu se 2 Operating systems on 2 diferent drives.
Complicated stuff, but im hoping someone can advise who is familier with more than one HD on their pc.
cheers
Ok here is a little pc question.
a while ago i got another pc, it was second hand so i had no control of the spec. Anyway, this pc has 2 hard drives. these are listed as:
programs ( c: )
local disc ( D: )
whan i start the pc and press control panel those are the 2 hard drives i see, the 'D' drive has the largest ammount of gigabytes, (is that called memory)
D drive is around 100 gig
C drive is around 50 gig
anyway, lets go back a little, when i turn on my pc i get a option of 2 windows XP to start, basically i just start the first one which is the 'D' drive and the largest ammount of gigabytes. all my programs are installed on this drive and this is the drive i always use.
I have 'booted' up the other drive before but there is only windows xp installed but no graphics card drivers, or any thing else, no modem ets, so i do not use it.
Ok, when i got rid of my last pc i took all the inside out and saved the hard drive this hard drive is 120 gig. So what i have done is put this hard drive into my pc tonight and rebooted it, when the pc started i got an installation message telling me that my pc had found new hardware. Once my pc loaded i clicked 'my computer' and it was shown as:
programs ( c: )
local disc( D: )
local disc ( F: )
so now this new hard drive is 'F' drive.
Now this is the question i would like a answer to.
'D' drive is windows XP, along with 'C' drive which has no progams installed and no grahpics cards etc.
I have a Windows Vista DVD and what i was thinking could i install this to the 'F' drive and still have XP on 'D' drive.
what im hoping for is if i do install Vista, when i start my pc will it say 'C' 'D' drive windows XP and 'F' drive windows Vista, so i can choose which OS i want to use.
If this is the case i would like to install Vista andu se 2 Operating systems on 2 diferent drives.
Complicated stuff, but im hoping someone can advise who is familier with more than one HD on their pc.
cheers
