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Old 06-21-2007, 08:28 AM   #1 (permalink)
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XP Pro/Vista Dual Boot
Ok, this isn't hardware, but anyone doing a XP Pro Dual Boot setup with Vista?
Any info or experience you could share would be appreciated.

I'd like to screw with Vista, but want my primary gaming & installation to still run on XP for a while yet.
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I have a machine that I run XP and Vista on. I don't dual boot. Instead, I have 2 different SATA Hard Drives in it, and I lock out (hide) the drive I don't want to boot from, and enable (unhide) the one I do want to boot from in the BIOS. The reason I did it this way was incase one OS got hosed, I didn't risk the loss of the other OS and data.
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I have a machine that I run XP and Vista on. I don't dual boot. Instead, I have 2 different SATA Hard Drives in it, and I lock out (hide) the drive I don't want to boot from, and enable (unhide) the one I do want to boot from in the BIOS. The reason I did it this way was incase one OS got hosed, I didn't risk the loss of the other OS and data.

Ooooooooh, wasn' thinking of that option since my existing MOBD didn't support the boot drive selection in BIOS. My new MOBD is SATA & will do it.

Thanks Erad I will do just as you described.
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I did it for a week and then I just went all Vista, of course I've had no real issues. I had XP installed first and then Vista, on a separate partition on the same drive. Did not have any issues.
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