Vista Question Before The Plunge

Wiggins

Wiggins

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Hi Guys,

I have just received my refurbed 80Gb Sata returned to me and was looking to take the plunge and install Vista on it.

I currently have XP on a 160Gb Sata and would like to ask if it would be better to unplug the XP drive, install Vista on the other and then plug the XP drive back in? Once that was done, just fix the MBR.

The reason i ask is that the last time i did this, Vista put a boot.cfg file on my XP Drive. Is this normal?

Many Thanks :)
 
Yes I had this problem as well. Then if for any reason you unplug your XP drive...Vista won't boot :(

Probably best if you only have once HDD powered up while you're installing Vista, then plug everything back in afterwards.

Tim
 
If not installed on the main boot drive/partition, then Vista will put those files. But get VistaBootPRO a free Vista Boot Manager (works also in XP) & avoid the cumbersome task of unplugging the drive, etc :)
 
I'm a bit of a n00b when it comes to this and will probably go the route of just the one drive while installing Vista but i'm just a little concerned that because Vista uses a completely different installation method, I will not be able to fix the MBR once I put the Xp drive back on. :confused:
 
tim80bwi said:
Yes I had this problem as well. Then if for any reason you unplug your XP drive...Vista won't boot :(

Probably best if you only have once HDD powered up while you're installing Vista, then plug everything back in afterwards.

Tim
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Dude, completely off track here but the mods might have you for having 7 lines of text in your sig. Only 4 allowed as far as I know.
 
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