Adding a new drive - questions

[JenkPC]

Hi, I'm adding more RAM to my PC and to take advantage I want to install VISTA 64BIT on a new 3.5" SATA drive.

 

I plan to leave XP on this hardrive, which is divided into 3 partions. One contains XP and a few system programs, one all my media and games and the other Ubuntu Linux. I want to install Vista on a brand new hardrive I will install.

 

Two questions...

 

1) I want to dual boot between XP,Vista and Ubuntu on the seperate hardrive. Is this okay? Do I have to change anything in BIOS? Will it provide me with a boot screen automatically detecting both OS's? I have Ubuntu on this box as well and have a GRUB menu, but im not sure if a SEPERATE hardrive would react the same as a PARITIONED. :confused:

 

2)AND when I am running Vista if I access the other hardrive and access the partition that contains all my games and media I installed with XP can I run my games on that drive in Vista ? Is there anything I need to do to the registry or do I just find the EXE, click it and it will run as long as it is compatible?

 

Thanks for reading:o

[Guest Wolfeymole]

You cannot dual, or in this case, triple boot from 2 separate physical hard disk drives.

 

All operating systems must be on the same drive.

[JenkPC]

Triple Booting

 

Could I then use GParted or something and shift all my media to the new drive, and then have all the operating systems on this drive?

 

Would that work?

[Guest Wolfeymole]

Have a read of this.

 

Hack Attack: How to triple-boot Windows XP, Vista, and Ubuntu