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| Thread ID: 83349 | 2007-09-28 07:14:00 | Installing Vista on a second HD | ephesus (2509) | Press F1 |
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| 595961 | 2007-09-28 07:14:00 | I am going to install Vista on a spare HD. Should I install this while XP is running or should I instal this from cold boot? XP Media Centre is already installed on my C drive so Vista would need to be D. Presumably if Vista is installed successful, I can access my files on C drive under Vista? Any advice would be appreciated. | ephesus (2509) | ||
| 595962 | 2007-09-28 07:36:00 | I am going to install Vista on a spare HD. Should I install this while XP is running or should I instal this from cold boot? XP Media Centre is already installed on my C drive so Vista would need to be D. Presumably if Vista is installed successful, I can access my files on C drive under Vista? Any advice would be appreciated. You Need to have the PC off, connect the second drive as a slave, then place the Vista DVD in the optical drive, you then boot from the DVD. At one point it will detect the New Dive and ask which Drive to install Vista. Select the right drive and install as normal. When its done and rebooted several times you will have the choice of booting into XP or Vista. If you want any data on the XP you will be able to go to it Via Vista. This page Here (articles.techrepublic.com.com) shows how its done also. Just a suggestion, back up your data on XP first, just in case something goes wrong. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 595963 | 2007-09-28 08:00:00 | Thanks..you are a saint. You don't need to mount the drive as slave if they are SATA, I assume? |
ephesus (2509) | ||
| 595964 | 2007-09-28 08:22:00 | Thanks..you are a saint. You don't need to mount the drive as slave if they are SATA, I assume? If you are using SATA drives they all will ususally show as Masters - this is fine,and how they work. If you have a combo of IDE and SATA same thing. Just make sure you load Vista on the correct drive, as it will wipe any data on the drive if there is any, and you don't want to wipe XP by mistake. I usually install Vista on the biggest drives people can afford as XP uses around 3.5- 4 Gb to install and Vista depending on the version needs around 15Gb. When installing it will change the boot loader for both operating systems - meaning if you decide to remove the either drive in the future the other wont boot unless the boot loader is altered to a single boot drive again. As mentioned before it pays to play safe and back up any important data on the XP drive first - just in case something goes wrong - Better to be safe than sorry. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 595965 | 2007-09-28 08:42:00 | When installing it will change the boot loader for both operating systems - meaning if you decide to remove the either drive in the future the other wont boot unless the boot loader is altered to a single boot drive again. I was going to ditch XP once I am familar with Vista. Is it difficult to change the boot loader to a single boot drive again? |
ephesus (2509) | ||
| 595966 | 2007-09-28 08:45:00 | I was going to ditch XP once I am familar with Vista. Is it difficult to change the boot loader to a single boot drive again? Its a bit of fiddling, but can be done. Plenty on the Internet on how to do it. Sometimes it pays to have both OS's as some programs you have may not run on Vista. |
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