2 HD's and 2 OS's

[Rybo89]

Hey

Just wondering, im wanting to use my old hard drive Seagate 250GB with XP on and my Samsung 500GB with Vista on, is it difficult to make it work, as in would i have to download anything or do anything to the BIOS

I would like it so when i boot the pc up, it will ask me which HD i want to use.But im guessing it it cant be that simple?

Wont be building my pc back up till Tuesday, so i haven't been able to try it my self yet, so thought i may as well ask here first, so i don't balls anything up

Thanks

 

[Leezy]

It was pretty simple when I did it actually..

I had Vista stored on my XP hard drive as an .ISO, I formatted my second hard drive so it was clean.. then extracted the ISO file into the fresh HDD and ran setup.

I actually double clicked the Vista set up file in XP and when going through the installation process it rebooted and carried on with the installation as if it were a new computer.

Once on the Vista desktop with everything sorted restart the PC and it will automatically know there are two operating systems and it then asks you o select one or the other.

 

[Aod]

It was pretty simple when I did it actually..

I had Vista stored on my XP hard drive as an .ISO, I formatted my second hard drive so it was clean.. then extracted the ISO file into the fresh HDD and ran setup.

I actually double clicked the Vista set up file in XP and when going through the installation process it rebooted and carried on with the installation as if it were a new computer.

Once on the Vista desktop with everything sorted restart the PC and it will automatically know there are two operating systems and it then asks you o select one or the other.

yeah, Vista and XP have simple boot-loaders built in.
i dual Boot Vista and XP from two separate partitions.

take heed though, start installing vista while inside XP or you won't be able to boot to XP without some annoying fiddling with BCDedit

 

[Sgt_Pepper]

I used to dual boot, i found it easier to do a fresh install of both OS's booting from CD, just make sure to install XP first. It cuts out on a lot of hassle...