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Vista and XP Dual install

TerryS

TerryS

TerryS

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Hi, I was thinking of 'upgrading' to 32bit Vista in order to take advantage of claimed performance increases with the soon to be released DX10 patch for FSX. I am worried however, that other games I play may not play or have reduced performance. Starting from scratch, with 3 new HD's, 2 in Raid 0 for the OS's and one for storage, would it be easy enough to install both Vista and XP without adversly affecting performance in either? Would I have to partition both raid 0 and the storage HD. As far as each OS is concerned with a dual boot setup, is it aware of or recognise the space that the other one takes up or is it invisible once booted. Hope someone can advise as I have no experience of 2 OS's on the same machine.

Terry
 
Dual booting is easy enough to do with xp and vista. Even more so if your starting from scratch on new drives.

Set up the raid firstly on the 2 drives.

Create a suitable sized partition for xp first with enough room left over for vista and install like normal.

Once xp is installed go ahead and install vista.

Once vista is installed your see the vista boot manager present itself everytime you restart your pc giving you the choice of which Os to run. Thats all there is to it.

As for the storage hard drive whatever you save on it may that be in vista or xp will be able to be seen/used as normal in the other os so only 1 partition is needed for that unless you require more yourself.

Take a look here for a bit more info on it.

Don't worry about the first bit in that guide about shrinking the xp partition as you wouldn't need to do that if starting from scratch.

Hope my rambling makes sense :)
 
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