Solve : How to dual boot?

1.	Solve : How to dual boot?
Answer» I just bought a new custom built computer, a Intel duo CORE 3.00Gz, and it has Vista HOME premium on it. My current machine has Xp. I don't want to lose my stuff on my HD on the XP machine. What is the best way to keep it. Can I put the old HD in the new machine? The new machine has 2 HD in it, but it has alot of expansion room.Do you have space on this hard drive to move around partitions if you need to?A little, but not alot...about 60Gb.Do you really need to dual boot or do you just want to have the files from your XP machine accessible on your new machine? I.e. do you really need to run XP on the new machine? If not you can simply install the hdd from your old machine in the new one and use it for storage. You don't need to run XP do access the files.What about the XP being on the old drive?I'd say you'd want to remove XP, so the system doesn't detect two operating systems. I don't know if you can dual boot operating systems that are on separate drives. I don't have enough experience in that area (or too many other areas )Hook it up as a slave device, the computer shouldn't try to boot from it then. Move the data you need to save to one of the other drives and format the drive with XP on. Move the data back afterwards. Quote from: Aegis on March 17, 2008, 03:09:13 PM I don't know if you can dual boot operating systems that are on separate drives. You can. But in this case it will never be true dual booting since Vista isn't aware of XP being installed on another drive and VICE versa. Thanks!!Okay, I did not know that. So the system will not (generally) try to boot a slave drive. (I stuck the generally in there to give you a little "wggle room" in case you need it, Deerpark. ) Hehe using words like generally and usually is always a good idea when talking about computers. They can be strange beasts at times. Generally, if the computer is configured properly with the primary master hdd holding the operating system it shouldn't try and boot a slave. (This can be overridden by selecting a different boot order in the BIOS on most BOARDS, but it is best to let your boot device be the master.) I probably should mention I'm talking about IDE drives here. With SATA drives there is no master/slave relationship since there's only one drive per channel. In this case the boot order is controlled by the BIOS. Be sure to CHECK your BIOS if your mixing IDE and SATA drives. It may try to boot IDE drives before SATA.

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I just bought a new custom built computer, a Intel duo CORE 3.00Gz, and it has Vista HOME premium on it. My current machine has Xp. I don't want to lose my stuff on my HD on the XP machine. What is the best way to keep it. Can I put the old HD in the new machine? The new machine has 2 HD in it, but it has alot of expansion room.Do you have space on this hard drive to move around partitions if you need to?A little, but not alot...about 60Gb.Do you really need to dual boot or do you just want to have the files from your XP machine accessible on your new machine? I.e. do you really need to run XP on the new machine?
If not you can simply install the hdd from your old machine in the new one and use it for storage. You don't need to run XP do access the files.What about the XP being on the old drive?I'd say you'd want to remove XP, so the system doesn't detect two operating systems. I don't know if you can dual boot operating systems that are on separate drives. I don't have enough experience in that area (or too many other areas )Hook it up as a slave device, the computer shouldn't try to boot from it then.
Move the data you need to save to one of the other drives and format the drive with XP on. Move the data back afterwards.
Quote from: Aegis on March 17, 2008, 03:09:13 PM

I don't know if you can dual boot operating systems that are on separate drives.

You can.
But in this case it will never be true dual booting since Vista isn't aware of XP being installed on another drive and VICE versa.
Thanks!!Okay, I did not know that. So the system will not (generally) try to boot a slave drive. (I stuck the generally in there to give you a little "wggle room" in case you need it, Deerpark. )
Hehe using words like generally and usually is always a good idea when talking about computers.
They can be strange beasts at times.
Generally, if the computer is configured properly with the primary master hdd holding the operating system it shouldn't try and boot a slave. (This can be overridden by selecting a different boot order in the BIOS on most BOARDS, but it is best to let your boot device be the master.)

I probably should mention I'm talking about IDE drives here. With SATA drives there is no master/slave relationship since there's only one drive per channel. In this case the boot order is controlled by the BIOS.
Be sure to CHECK your BIOS if your mixing IDE and SATA drives. It may try to boot IDE drives before SATA.

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