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Dual Boot PC (Vista and XP)
I've got an XP PC with 2 drives and wanted to make the second drive bootable with Vista. When I Install it I'll obviously specify D drive for the install, but what I want is a menu at startup where I can choose either XP (ob C drive) or Vista (on D drive). Does that happen automatically or will I need to does this manually - if so how!?
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alot of motherboards have bios options that allow you to choose which device to boot from. every manufacturer is different though, depends which board you have/which bios version etc.
if you're a little cluey with computers, go into bios on startup and have a looksy, see if there is an option to always chose boot device on startup one question though - why do you need both? |
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I know that if you install the two operating systems on different partitions of the same drive a message pops up saying "an older version of Windows has been detected" and asks you to select which one you want to boot - Vista or XP.
I'm not sure if this will happen where they are installed on two different drives - the computer will only search for an OS on the selected boot drive right |
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On my bootup I have to hit F8 very early in the bootup sequence and I'll get an option of drives to boot up from
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Vista will create its own boot menu for you.
You will have the choice of the 2 operating systems. This should work on 2 physical drives the same as it will work with 1 drive 2 partitions. |
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Windows 7 is already in its Release Candidate stage.
It has the speed of XP and the looks and features of VISTA. Windows 7 is due out in a few months time. |
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download and install VMware (virtual machine), and then you can create as many operating systems as you want... i have a few for my development machines.
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or windows HyperV
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boot, dual, pc, vista, xp |
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