Has anyone tried dual booting with.....

[wheelzup]

I'm a big chicken when it comes to installing Vista. I was wondering if I would install it on a new hard drive and keep my XP install on the same PC and jump back and forth between them as I start adding or at least trying to find out what other software I run now will work with Vista, if it doesn't and I really need the other program I would just switch to my XP drive/drives....I was thinking this might be the safest route to go instead of going point blank over to Vista, hard drives are cheap enough these days to allow for a test like this or at least until I know and have everything I'll need for Vista....my PC passes all of the tests you can download for compatibility....I just want to be sure it (Vista) works right for me before diving in..................:eek:

Oh yea I need to update my PC's spec's I'm using an Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 on an ASUS P5B Deluxe MB with 4GB of Corsair XMS Pro memory and an eVga 8800GTS video card at the core of my system among many other changes...

[Thanatos]

I dont know about using 2 drives to dual boot but i have done it on a single drive without any problems.

[dog2525]

it would work. At the part of the install were it asks you were to install vista, just choose the new HDD, and your set. After that everytime you turn the computer on it will ask what to boot, vista or xp.

[Grimreaper]

I would make sure to image your xp drive or atleast backup all the important files on it. I tried a dual-boot between xp pro and a beta of vista using to different drives and it messed up the MBR on xp pro resulting in a new install. Just a heads up. I don't know what caused it really, i was so pissed i wiped both drives, reinstalled xp and went on with life lol. Didn't even bother to look into it.

[chris000001]

it would work. At the part of the install were it asks you were to install vista, just choose the new HDD, and your set. After that everytime you turn the computer on it will ask what to boot, vista or xp.

It works exactly like that, that is how i have it set up, XP on the raptors and vista on a single 120gb

[wheelzup]

I was thinking that I'd put it on a Raptor drive.

[stlouis1]

even if you choose to install vista to the same drive as XP, as long as you dont click the advanced button to format or anything, itll move XP to a windows.old folder where its still bootable

i had a quad boot with 98, xp, vista, and fedora just to mess around

[dog2525]

just make sure not to install over xp. and backup your data just in case. you never know what might happend.
ps: i used to have xp xp64 and suse 10 on my single drive.

[stlouis1]

like i said, vista wont install over XP unless you format, it moves it to a windows.old and add it to the boot loader as legacy OS