Guest John Posted July 19, 2007 Posted July 19, 2007 Hi I have a primary SATA disk in my PC with win xp installed. I now have a new secondary SATA disk. Can I install win vista on secondary disk without effecting the win xp on primary disk? Can I still boot into either windows? Thanks Regards
Guest peter Posted July 19, 2007 Posted July 19, 2007 Re: Win xp with Vista If you install Vista onto that 2nd HD it will affect the 1st HD...........Vista will overwrite the boot sector and replace the XP boot files with its own inorder to give you the Dual Boot option when you start your system...........this is the choice to boot into either XP or Vista. If your Mobo Bios supports an F ? choice of picking which HD to boot from during the boot process you could disconnect your 1st HD and install Vista onto the 2nd(dont forget those SATA drivers during the install)...or you could just enter the BIOS each time you boot and pick which HD to make 1st boot choice. With the 1st HD disconnected Vista cannot see it and will not change anything on it. peter "John" <John@nospam.infovis.co.uk> wrote in message news:%23M%23e4pgyHHA.1132@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Hi > > I have a primary SATA disk in my PC with win xp installed. I now have a > new secondary SATA disk. Can I install win vista on secondary disk without > effecting the win xp on primary disk? Can I still boot into either > windows? > > Thanks > > Regards >
Guest Sam Posted July 19, 2007 Posted July 19, 2007 Re: Win xp with Vista "peter" <peter@nowhere.net> wrote in message news:%232fimChyHHA.4800@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > If you install Vista onto that 2nd HD it will affect the 1st > HD...........Vista will overwrite the boot sector and replace the XP boot > files with its own inorder to give you the Dual Boot option when you start > your system...........this is the choice to boot into either XP or Vista. > If your Mobo Bios supports an F ? choice of picking which HD to boot from > during the boot process you could disconnect your 1st HD and install Vista > onto the 2nd(dont forget those SATA drivers during the install)...or you > could just enter the BIOS each time you boot and pick which HD to make 1st > boot choice. > With the 1st HD disconnected Vista cannot see it and will not change > anything on it. > peter > "John" <John@nospam.infovis.co.uk> wrote in message > news:%23M%23e4pgyHHA.1132@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >> Hi >> >> I have a primary SATA disk in my PC with win xp installed. I now have a >> new secondary SATA disk. Can I install win vista on secondary disk >> without effecting the win xp on primary disk? Can I still boot into >> either windows? >> >> Thanks >> >> Regards >> > I've done the same thing. With the Dell bios I hit F12 and choose which drive to boot off of. I have Vista on the 1st and XP on the 2nd. Disconect the 1st drive with Vista when you install XP so they won't know about each other.
Guest carl feredeck Posted July 19, 2007 Posted July 19, 2007 Re: Win xp with Vista yes you can, if you do it as you say it will become a dual boot system. its funny to see replies like johns, going through all unnecessary details, and in the end he does not give a clear answer... I hope he never considers working for tech support. "John" <John@nospam.infovis.co.uk> wrote in message news:%23M%23e4pgyHHA.1132@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Hi > > I have a primary SATA disk in my PC with win xp installed. I now have a > new secondary SATA disk. Can I install win vista on secondary disk without > effecting the win xp on primary disk? Can I still boot into either > windows? > > Thanks > > Regards >
Guest huwyngr Posted July 19, 2007 Posted July 19, 2007 Re: Win xp with Vista In article <469f884c@newsgate.x-privat.org>, Carl feredeck wrote: > yes you can, if you do it as you say it will become a dual boot system. Except it may not work, as peter and MS say ..... This is due to the changes in VISTA booting method IIRC.
Guest Ian Posted July 20, 2007 Posted July 20, 2007 Re: Win xp with Vista The main problem with multiboot is that Vista setup meddles with the MBR of the disk(s) which no OS should rightfully do. Thus, you may end-up with problems if you try to install Vista with another active disk or partition visible. I think you would be OK if you install Vista to a separate disk and disconnect the XP disk during the install. You can then choose which disk to boot from in the BIOS.
Guest huwyngr Posted July 20, 2007 Posted July 20, 2007 Re: Win xp with Vista In article <2E6A2CD4-F81B-43CC-B01F-03672A493613@microsoft.com>, Ian wrote: > You can then choose which disk to boot from in the BIOS. YUK -- or if you use a Boot Manager that hides the non VISTA drive.
Guest Plato Posted July 21, 2007 Posted July 21, 2007 Re: Win xp with Vista John wrote: > > I have a primary SATA disk in my PC with win xp installed. I now have a new > secondary SATA disk. Can I install win vista on secondary disk without > effecting the win xp on primary disk? Can I still boot into either windows? It's best to to use your bios to install new OS's totally separtately without affecting the existing install of your previous OS. -- http://www.bootdisk.com/
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