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Windows Vista: dual boot vista and xp two different hard drives
For some time I did this (about four months)
by Dango517 - 10/5/07 9:00 PM In reply to: dual boot vista and xp two different hard drives by heterihad no problems with the install. Both systems worked fine but I did have problems with a purchased security suite that would not run on both OSs at the same time. After a few months I abandoned this approach and made the jump to Vista only. I now use the second drive as a backup for Vista Business. Vistas working well for me but it did take some work, only some minor glitches remain.
At this point
by Dango517 - 12/20/07 5:29 PM In reply to: For some time I did this (about four months) by Dango517No glitches remain accept I can't get that ---- SP1 release candidate to load. There is one other problem that is kind of a bummer. When will the third party freebies catch up with Vista? I was looking for a free Christmas wallpaper yesterday and came up with nothing. 
I know, I know...........poor baby. Geeeeez it is the Holidays, cut me some slack.
Answer dual boot xp and vista
by knight2448 - 10/6/07 8:41 PM In reply to: dual boot vista and xp two different hard drives by heteriI tried to do a dual boot with vista and xp when vista first came out. I experienced a great deal of problems. I am still using xp because my tv tuner does not work in vista. Anyway, I have one hard drive with xp on it and the other has vista on it. When I want to use vista I just unplug the other hard drive slide it out, slide in the vista hard drive and plug them back in. It is simple for me because both hard drives are SATA. Which is great becuase I have no jumpers to worry about.
I hope this helps.
another option
by je859 - 10/7/07 12:13 AM In reply to: dual boot vista and xp two different hard drives by heterianother option instead of dual booting is to put xp in a virtual machine
i have vista as my main system. then i have xp in a virtual machine using a program called virtual box. i have also put linux in vms
benefits.
you can run multiple os at the same time/ need alot of ram i
have 2 gigs
you can copy and paste between os
i can print from any os on a network printer
i have a shared folder i can share files between both os
you can boot up iso files in vms
you can copy vm between multiple machines and to back up it is only one file. linux. check eula before you do this
you can surf internet in vm and if you are infected with a bad virus or worm you can just delete vm and restore with a back up copy.
drawbacks
in order to burn a disk you need to have a usb burner or copy file to shared folder and burn in vista
other than the network card you can only access the usb bus
Have you used the Microsoft vitalization software?
by Dango517 - 10/7/07 1:10 AM In reply to: another option by je859The free version, Virtual PC.
What was your impression?
How does Virtual Box compare?
microsoft
by je859 - 10/7/07 1:54 AM In reply to: Have you used the Microsoft vitalization software? by Dango517no i have not tried microsoft virtual pc yet
with virtual box you can use microsoft os , linux and now there is a beta for use on macintosh. i would like to know what os's are compatable with virtual pc. this would make a good forum in itself.
http://www.virtualbox.org/
opensource
Here's a link
by Dango517 - 10/7/07 8:54 AM In reply to: microsoft by je859http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx
This might answer your questions.
I used this software for awhile and found the interface to be clunky and difficult to manage.
SATA Dual Boot Question
by Berae2 - 10/22/07 6:49 PM In reply to: Here's a link by Dango517I'm sorry but I have to ask, forgive the basic question. I have 2 sata drives and need to install xp on both and dual boot so i can flip back and forth. The orig hd is in SATA 0 slot and has XP on it. The new HD is in SATA slot 1 but when i try to load XP to it, the windows setup pgm does not even see the 2nd drive. I was told that windows will only notice the SATA 0 slot.
Does this mean there is no way i can dual boot ? I know i can swap the slots when i need to but I'd sure rather just have a nice litte selection screen pop up when i reboot.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Is it showing up in the bios?
by Dango517 - 10/22/07 7:15 PM In reply to: SATA Dual Boot Question by Berae2restart>on boot screen, click f1, hold it down> is the drive showing up here?
This is a basic over view of the problem
by Dango517 - 10/22/07 7:22 PM In reply to: Is it showing up in the bios? by Dango517See link:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/101787
Again this link is general information only.
What OS are you using and the what's is the make and model of the Hard drive that "is not" showing up/not installing correctly?
Dual Boot XP with SATA drives
by Berae2 - 10/23/07 6:40 AM In reply to: This is a basic over view of the problem by Dango517Yes both harddrives show up correctly in Bios. Using windows XP operating system. The new HD is a WD Sata 300. If i place the new HD in slot 0 and the orig in slot1 windows setup does not see the slot1 HD either so it does not seem to be anything specific to a HD. Like i said, on the Dell forums i was told that SATA HD's can only be recognized by XP if they are in slot 0, you can use them to store data in the other 4 slots but to load XP it has to be in slot 0. Is that a correct statement? What would the purpose of that be?
I do not believe this is a slot problem.
by Dango517 - 10/23/07 7:23 PM In reply to: Dual Boot XP with SATA drives by Berae2This is a basic configuration problem.
You do have a functioning OS correct? If so let me know what you have/find here..start>control panel>administrative tools>computer management>disk management> Is the drive showing up here? Is it active? Has it been formatted? What is it drive letter; is there a conflict (both named the same, CC, DD) in the volume name?
If it is showing up go to the Western Digital web and down load something called: Western Digital Data Lifeguard Diagnostics---for Windows. Run this on the new drive if you can.
http://support.wdc.com/download/
See this also:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/291980/en-us
Other possible problems
NTFS, FAT32, FAT file name problem
Faulty hard drive
OS loading problem
This may be a tough problem to fix. You will need to be patient.
SATA Dual Boot
by Berae2 - 10/24/07 7:21 AM In reply to: I do not believe this is a slot problem. by Dango517Dango,
thanks so much for taking the time to help me!
I will try these things as soon as i can. In the mean can you let me know your opinion of this comment that someone left for me on the Dell boards.
"With SATA, the boot C:/ hard drive, is always connected to the motherboard SATA port-0 and the system will only boot to this drive."
This comment left me with little hope but from what your indicating I may be able to dual boot after all if i can troubleshoot this and find the problem.
Dual Boot Vista 64 on Raid 1 and XP on Seperate Drive
by slr-10 - 11/13/07 7:56 PM In reply to: SATA Dual Boot by Berae2I am building a new computer with 6 hard drives, 2 Raptors in a RAID 1, 1 for XP Pro, 2 in a Raid 0 for Data and 1 for backups and transfers, etc. I have read about installing XP first, but I have unfortunately installed Vista on the Raid first. I would like to use an old image of my previous XP installation from my old computer if I could. Any suggestions for what I should do at this point. I went through a lot of trouble installing drivers and would like to avoid reinstalling Vista again.
Also, I would like to point to the data drives for all my data. Can I put my entire user account on the Raid 0 Data Drive and point XP's My Documents to the Vista documents folder on the Data Drive?
Two Operating Systems.. Two SATA Hard Drives
by straptin958 - 11/26/07 9:29 AM In reply to: Dual Boot Vista 64 on Raid 1 and XP on Seperate Drive by slr-10Ok here is my problem i have jus been introduced to ubuntu and i waned to partition my hard drive to dual boot XP and Ubuntu but i would have to format the drive and start over..
Instead I have ordered another harddrive and was wondering if it possible to install ubuntu on that harddrive and dual boot.
The Method I want to take.
Install ubuntu to new hard drive and since i have this easy boot feature i will select it to load from which ever drive i want it to but is there another way that may be even more simple? Will my method even actually work.
I dont know what RAID actually is but will that help me?
Thanks for the help
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