Guest LMO Posted July 21, 2007 Posted July 21, 2007 Aloha all. I just bought a new Dell system. It came with Vista. I hated it, wiped the drive, and installed XP. I'm thinking of buying a 2nd drive, and installing the original OS on to the new drive, then, upon bootup, selecting either XP or Vista. Is this possible? The new system is SATA. Does this matter for what I'm thinking of? Thanks!
Guest Not Me Posted July 21, 2007 Posted July 21, 2007 Re: Select Boot Drive? Usually if the restore disk will work on a different HDD, it restores the system to the exact state it left the factory. That would preclude dual boot without a third party boot utility. If you have an actual Vista DVD inbstead of a restore disk, that should work. Just boot from the DVD and follow the onscreen instructions, but be aware that booting to XP will kill any Vista restore points unless you have bitlocker working or a utility to hide Vista from XP. "LMO" <gcorlin@hawaii.rr.como> wrote in message news:46a1ab13$0$4716$4c368faf@roadrunner.com... > Aloha all. I just bought a new Dell system. It came with Vista. I hated > it, wiped the drive, and installed XP. I'm thinking of buying a 2nd drive, > and installing the original OS on to the new drive, then, upon bootup, > selecting either XP or Vista. Is this possible? The new system is SATA. > Does this matter for what I'm thinking of? > Thanks! > >
Guest Timothy Daniels Posted July 21, 2007 Posted July 21, 2007 Re: Select Boot Drive? "LMO" wen' write: > Aloha all. I just bought a new Dell system. It came with Vista. I hated it, > wiped the drive, and installed XP. I'm thinking of buying a 2nd drive, and > installing the original OS on to the new drive, then, upon bootup, selecting > either XP or Vista. Is this possible? The new system is SATA. Does this > matter for what I'm thinking of? > Thanks! Ey, bra! Da mohss easy way fo' do diss eez inside da BIOS whan you staht up. Juss sat da Hahd Drive Boot Orda (not da Device Boot Orda - da HAHD DRIVE Boot Orda), an' da hahd drive at da top uh da leest goeen be da hard drive dat boot. Juss instaw da originaw Veesta whan da 2nd hahd drive eez da ONLY hard drive een da seestem. Daa way, each OS teenk ees da only OS een da seestem whan it gat da seegnow from da BIOS to staht up, an' no need scroo aroun' weed dual-boot an' aw dat pilikia. Een udda words, make da BIOS do yoah dual-booteeng fo you. *TeemDaniowz*
Guest LMO Posted July 21, 2007 Posted July 21, 2007 Re: Select Boot Drive? I'm Hawaiian, not Jamaican, Mahn! But tanks for de advice! "Timothy Daniels" <TDaniels@NoSpamDot.com> wrote in message news:46a1b363$0$31217$4c368faf@roadrunner.com... > "LMO" wen' write: >> Aloha all. I just bought a new Dell system. It came with Vista. I hated >> it, wiped the drive, and installed XP. I'm thinking of buying a 2nd >> drive, and installing the original OS on to the new drive, then, upon >> bootup, selecting either XP or Vista. Is this possible? The new system is >> SATA. Does this matter for what I'm thinking of? >> Thanks! > > > Ey, bra! Da mohss easy way fo' do diss eez inside da BIOS whan > you staht up. Juss sat da Hahd Drive Boot Orda (not da Device > Boot Orda - da HAHD DRIVE Boot Orda), an' da hahd drive at > da top uh da leest goeen be da hard drive dat boot. Juss instaw > da originaw Veesta whan da 2nd hahd drive eez da ONLY hard > drive een da seestem. Daa way, each OS teenk ees da only OS > een da seestem whan it gat da seegnow from da BIOS to staht up, > an' no need scroo aroun' weed dual-boot an' aw dat pilikia. Een > udda words, make da BIOS do yoah dual-booteeng fo you. > > *TeemDaniowz*
Guest Timothy Daniels Posted July 21, 2007 Posted July 21, 2007 Re: Select Boot Drive? Ah! I've always wanted a tank. Two would be even better! :-) Normally, for dual-booting with Windows OSes, one would install the later OS last, letting the installation routine formulate the dual-boot menu and directives (such as the boot.ini file in the case of WinXP) for you that would include the older OSes that the installer finds in the system. In your case, if you really have a Vista *installation* CD, you could do just that, and you'd end up with a dual-boot scenario. But if you really just have an image of an installed Vista that is bundled together with an image-restoration utility, you'd just be restoring a mono-boot to the 2nd HD. If you had a mix of Windows NT/2K/XP, this could easily be remedied by editing the boot.ini file that controls booting to make it include the other OSes. But the control of multi-booting in Vista is handled in a new and more complex way, and it's usually left to installation software to formulate, so installing WinXP after the Vista installation has already been done just screws up the Vista boot process. To avoid that, and since each of your OSes will be on a separate HD, I suggested that you let each OS load as a mono-boot and tell the BIOS which HD to pass control to for booting. *TimDaniels* "LMO" wrote: > I'm Hawaiian, not Jamaican, Mahn! > But tanks for de advice! > > "Timothy Daniels" <TDaniels@NoSpamDot.com> wrote in message > news:46a1b363$0$31217$4c368faf@roadrunner.com... >> "LMO" wen' write: >>> Aloha all. I just bought a new Dell system. It came with Vista. I hated >>> it, wiped the drive, and installed XP. I'm thinking of buying a 2nd >>> drive, and installing the original OS on to the new drive, then, upon >>> bootup, selecting either XP or Vista. Is this possible? The new system is >>> SATA. Does this matter for what I'm thinking of? >>> Thanks! >> >> >> Ey, bra! Da mohss easy way fo' do diss eez inside da BIOS whan >> you staht up. Juss sat da Hahd Drive Boot Orda (not da Device >> Boot Orda - da HAHD DRIVE Boot Orda), an' da hahd drive at >> da top uh da leest goeen be da hard drive dat boot. Juss instaw >> da originaw Veesta whan da 2nd hahd drive eez da ONLY hard >> drive een da seestem. Daa way, each OS teenk ees da only OS >> een da seestem whan it gat da seegnow from da BIOS to staht up, >> an' no need scroo aroun' weed dual-boot an' aw dat pilikia. Een >> udda words, make da BIOS do yoah dual-booteeng fo you. >> >> *TeemDaniowz* > >
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