billy1ear Posted March 24, 2008 Posted March 24, 2008 Currently running XP. Bought a sata drive and a copy of vista basic x64. Am thinking I just plug in the new drive without changing any jumpers enable the sata port and the drive should be recognized. Boot XP, install the vista cd and do an install. I am going to preload the vista 64 drivers for my adapters on a thumb drive so they will be handy if I need them. Am I on the right track? Thanks in advance. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReelFiles Posted March 25, 2008 Posted March 25, 2008 I think the easiest way is to install Vista with the XP drive disconnected, to make sure none of the boot files get stored on the XP drive. Then change your HDD boot priority whenever you wanna change OS. It's much simpler than if you did it the normal way and wanted to remove the Vista boot loader later. If you end up wanting to get rid of Vista later on you just wipe the Vista drive and that's it, the other way is a huge pain to get back to XP as your sole OS. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
billy1ear Posted March 25, 2008 Posted March 25, 2008 Hmm, that might work for me, guessing folks are doing that successfully? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Praz Posted March 25, 2008 Posted March 25, 2008 Hmm, that might work for me, guessing folks are doing that successfully? The easiest way to do it period. I have XP, Vista32 and Vista64 on three separate drives on my test boards. During the boot process just hit the Escape key to choose which drive to boot from. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MACarter02 Posted March 25, 2008 Posted March 25, 2008 The easiest way to do it period. I have XP, Vista32 and Vista64 on three separate drives on my test boards. During the boot process just hit the Escape key to choose which drive to boot from Use this method for Vista and Ubuntu currently Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
billy1ear Posted March 25, 2008 Posted March 25, 2008 Thanks, am running ms updates on my new vista install, have not plugged my old xp drive in and tested yet but I assume I will be ok. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReelFiles Posted March 25, 2008 Posted March 25, 2008 Yep everything should be fine, just don't delete anything off the XP drive by accident. Hidden system files will show when browsing that HDD from within Vista. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mousekin Posted March 25, 2008 Posted March 25, 2008 Yep everything should be fine, just don't delete anything off the XP drive by accident. Hidden system files will show when browsing that HDD from within Vista. Be careful as XP and Vista don't always play nice. http://vistasupport.mvps.org/prevent_syste..._windows_xp.htm Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReelFiles Posted March 25, 2008 Posted March 25, 2008 Good point, didn't even cross my mind as I turn system restore off on all my systems. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mousekin Posted March 26, 2008 Posted March 26, 2008 Good point, didn't even cross my mind as I turn system restore off on all my systems. Me too, but others might be surprised. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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