Best way to dual boot?

cozm01 · 19 Feb 2007 at 20:17

I have 2x74gbRaptor. I want XP and Vista in dual boot. Which is best method:

A. RAID 0 - 2 partitions, XP and Vista on seperate partitions.
B. NO RAID - XP and Vista on seperate drives.
C. Another

Kaiju · 20 Feb 2007 at 03:43

cozm01 said:
I have 2x74gbRaptor. I want XP and Vista in dual boot. Which is best method:

A. RAID 0 - 2 partitions, XP and Vista on seperate partitions.
B. NO RAID - XP and Vista on seperate drives.
C. Another

The best, i'm not quite sure as i've never heard of anyone dual booting on seperate drives. I suggest sticking with what's more commonly done and dual boot on a single drive and use the other drive as a media/backup store.

fumbles · 20 Feb 2007 at 04:01

I would say A since you will get a huge performance boost with RAID 0.

"heard of anyone dual booting on seperate drives"

Really? It is quite common, considering with everything on one drive you have a single point of failure.

Kaiju · 20 Feb 2007 at 04:03

fumbles said:
Really? It is quite common, considering with everything on one drive you have a single point of failure.

Ya learn something new everyday.

fumbles · 20 Feb 2007 at 04:55

Kaiju said:
Ya learn something new everyday.

Windows can get upset if its not on the first hard drive tho, which is why it would be uncommon. I tried putting WinXP and WinXP64 on two different hdd's, WinXP became corrupted, XP64 worked fine tho.

Kaiju · 20 Feb 2007 at 04:56

fumbles said:
Windows can get upset if its not on the first hard drive tho, which is why it would be uncommon.

So is it common or uncommon?