VISTA - DUAL BOOT QUERY

bloodline76 · 20 Nov 2007 at 07:54

I have Vista 64 and XP running on dual boot.

At the moment I am running my XP on a raptor drive and I was testing Vista on an old slow drive that I had spare.

As I wanted to test it out first before making the jump I didnt use the faster drive.

If I am happy(wait for a few more months) then can I just upgrade the XP one to VISTA as well? Have two Vistas? Then delete the slow drive.

Or could I unplug the Vista one and upgrade the XP?

What would be the best way of doing this?

Also, can I install my games on a seperate drive with XP games on it as well?

Or do I have to have a seperate drive for XP and Vista games?

Thanks!

bloodline76 · 20 Nov 2007 at 13:52

Anyone???

There must be one know it all out there!

modo77 · 20 Nov 2007 at 14:15

You'd be better off not doing an upgrade, its always better with a fresh install.
So move anything you need off your raptor onto the slow disk. Then format and install vista on the raptor. Then get rid of the vista install on the slower disk.

Billy 2 Sips · 20 Nov 2007 at 15:22

If it's the 32 bit xp version you've got you will definitely need to do a fresh install if you want the 64 bit version of vista.

At the moment I have vista setup on my 2 raptors in RAID 0. I then have xp pro installed on a 80gb hard drive. I still needed xp as a game I play a lot and a media server i use a lot did not work on vista 64 bit.

I would keep your vista and xp drive completely separate. Especially if one OS is 32 bit and another is 64 bit.

bloodline76 · 20 Nov 2007 at 19:07

Thanks. I am having trouble with the sound on my vista, as in there is none.

I tried to install from disk which is vista compatible but this does not recognise the disk as playable?

Help!