| Subject: Dual boot |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup |
| Date: 5/9/2008 7:48:26 AM |
| From: Kate [Email Address Protection] |
OK, I'm having a hard time with this. I just can't seem to get my brain wrapped around it. I hope someone can give me a simple answer. I have 2 HD's. One has XP Pro, the other Vista Home Premium. I want to dual boot. I got Acronis and installed it's OS Selector. It only seems to recognize the OS on the first drive. I tried making another partition on the XP drive (since that is the one I am not wanted to reformat at the moment). I have enough space showing, 63GB but I could only get it to make a small 7GB partition.. Obviously not helpful. Must I have both OS on the same drive? Is there some not to complex way to use 2 drives? TY, Kate |
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| Subject: Re: Dual boot |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup |
| Date: 5/9/2008 10:17:44 AM |
| From: "Carey Frisch [MVP]" [Email Address Protection] |
Download, install and configure VistaBootPro: http://www.vistabootpro.org/ -- Carey Frisch Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience - Windows Vista Enthusiast --------------------------------------------------------------- "Kate" <kzlists@yahoo.nospam> wrote in message news:4824643a$0$7079$4c368faf@roadrunner.com... OK, I'm having a hard time with this. I just can't seem to get my brain wrapped around it. I hope someone can give me a simple answer. I have 2 HD's. One has XP Pro, the other Vista Home Premium. I want to dual boot. I got Acronis and installed it's OS Selector. It only seems to recognize the OS on the first drive. I tried making another partition on the XP drive (since that is the one I am not wanted to reformat at the moment). I have enough space showing, 63GB but I could only get it to make a small 7GB partition.. Obviously not helpful. Must I have both OS on the same drive? Is there some not to complex way to use 2 drives? TY, Kate |
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| Subject: Re: Dual boot |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup |
| Date: 5/9/2008 11:12:08 AM |
| From: Jawade [Email Address Protection] |
In article <e3dCcifsIHA.4260@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>, Carey Frisch [MVP] <cnfrisch@nospamgamil.com> says... > Download, install and configure VistaBootPro: > http://www.vistabootpro.org/ But a Windows who is installed at a first drive, will never work placed at a second drive. Even the driveletter will be a problem. -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Jawade. Weer update BackUp-prog. http://jawade.nl/ Met een mirror op http://jawade.fortunecity.com/ Bootmanager (+Vista +Linux), ClrMBR, DiskEdit (+Linux), POP3lezer, DOS-Filebrowser, Kalender, Webtellers en IP-log, USB-stick tester. |
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| Subject: Re: Dual boot |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup |
| Date: 5/9/2008 5:37:58 PM |
| From: andy [Email Address Protection] |
On Fri, 09 May 2008 10:48:26 -0400, Kate <kzlists@yahoo.nospam> wrote: >OK, I'm having a hard time with this. I just can't seem to get my brain >wrapped around it. I hope someone can give me a simple answer. > >I have 2 HD's. One has XP Pro, the other Vista Home Premium. I want to >dual boot. I got Acronis and installed it's OS Selector. It only seems >to recognize the OS on the first drive. I tried making another partition >on the XP drive (since that is the one I am not wanted to reformat at >the moment). I have enough space showing, 63GB but I could only get it >to make a small 7GB partition.. Obviously not helpful. > >Must I have both OS on the same drive? Is there some not to complex way >to use 2 drives? >TY, Kate Follow the steps described at <http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windows.vista.general/browse_thread/thread/a434fb8e883bfe76/e44fccdac924c871?hl=en&lnk=st&q=#e44fccdac924c871> |
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| Subject: Re: Dual boot |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup |
| Date: 5/10/2008 6:38:42 PM |
| From: "Timothy Daniels" [Email Address Protection] |
"Kate" wrote: > I have 2 HD's. One has XP Pro, the other Vista Home Premium. > I want to dual boot. [.....] > > Must I have both OS on the same drive? Is there some not to > complex way to use 2 drives? > TY, Kate The simplest way to dual-boot 2 hard drives with an OS already independently installed on each is to use the BIOS to switch between the 2 hard drives by "enabling" one or the other as the boot drive. In some older BIOSes, in which you could set the hard drive boot priority, the hard drive that you put at the head of the list would be the boot drive. Just make sure that the partitions that have the BCD file (Vista) and the boot.ini/ntldr files (XP) are marked "active" (use Disk Management). *TimDaniels* |
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