dual boot how do you do it?

[rickmoz]

Ive been runnig vista 64 since it came out with no problems but, i have just got the iphone and it does not work with any 64 bit system (Dam you apple ) so i need to put XP x86 on to use itunes and my phone but how can i do it with out taking vista off. I have 3 hdd non in raid, 2 with well over 100gb of free space.

can anyone give me for any info.

Thanks

 

[yantorsen]

easiest way would be to just install xp on a seperate hdd.

 

[Rebelius]

unplug all your hard drives
plug in the one you want XP on
install XP
plug the other ones in
change the bios settings for hard drive boot preference to select which OS you want.

you will probably only need a small partition of one of your hard drives if it's only going to be used for itunes.


this probably isn't totally necessary, but I always do it when installing a new OS just to make sure it doesn't mess with anything or put part of it's bootup stuff on another hard-drive. I run Vista from a pair of raptors in raid0 and first time I installed it, it put a bunch of boot things on my old P-ATA storage drive.