Dual boot question

[crazymofo16321]

I'll be getting a new PC soon, but i want to keep my old IDE Hard drive with XP on it, If i just stick it in my system, driver clean the old ATI drivers, put in Nvidia ones will it work? (going from x800xl to 8800gtx) I also will be purchasing a Seagate 7200.10 750gb SATA hdd which ill use with Vista and the old hard drive for a dual boot system. Will this work? I really want to keep my old hard drive as i cant be bothered/dont have the time to redownload everything on there.

Thanks.

 

[J.B]

If you can get your IDE drive to run XP on your new rig then installing vista and dual booting on the SATA drive is easy.

However getting XP to work like that can be hit and miss, not to mention I think it may be illegal.

I have seen it work going from a Dell to a custom built machine, but they used the same CPU so I think that might of help, although the copy of XP had to be reactivated due to the massive change in hardware!

If you have the windows disk you could boot from that and try and repair the installation once the drive is in the new machine, this will "reinstall" it with your new hardware but should keep your programs, documents etc.

 

[crazymofo16321]

I may just avoid complication and use just the SATA and buy a new OEM XP and get vista later when crysis comes out. If I install XP to the fresh SATA drive, can i plug my old one in and copy the files over? won't it will just give me a xp proffesional (old) /xp Home (new) dual boot menu? If i do this and just create a new partition for vista when it comes out will it all turn out alright?

Thanks for the advice!