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non omega problem(Computer)
« on: 09 October 2008, 19:49:59 »

Sorry about this but i am stuck :'( and maybe some of you good folk may know :y

Can anybody explain how to dual boot Vista and XP but from seperate Harddrives? :-?
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Re: non omega problem(Computer)
« Reply #1 on: 09 October 2008, 20:00:28 »

I think you have to install xp first and then vista.
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Re: non omega problem(Computer)
« Reply #2 on: 09 October 2008, 20:01:12 »

I just did it last week.
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Re: non omega problem(Computer)
« Reply #3 on: 09 October 2008, 20:07:31 »

Don't think you can do a dual boot with separate hard drives, easy with the same hard drive with two partitions.  You can do it either way with vista or xp installed first.  

You could just install xp and vista on each of the hard drives and use the bios to select which hard drive to boot first.
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Re: non omega problem(Computer)
« Reply #4 on: 09 October 2008, 20:18:43 »

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Don't think you can do a dual boot with separate hard drives, easy with the same hard drive with two partitions.  You can do it either way with vista or xp installed first.  

You could just install xp and vista on each of the hard drives and use the bios to select which hard drive to boot first.

Yes you can use two hard drives.

I just set it up last week on mine.
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Re: non omega problem(Computer)
« Reply #5 on: 09 October 2008, 20:40:38 »

If it lets you use the two hard drives download easy bcd creator and install it onto the current version of windows you have then select the drive for each os and then install the other version of windows.  

If you google "dual boot xp vista" or vica versa you should find a guide without any problems.

Make sure you have a copy of both os's in case you need to repair the boot sector if all doesn't go to plan.
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Re: non omega problem(Computer)
« Reply #7 on: 09 October 2008, 22:20:03 »

Great :y

I now know that it is possable

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Re: non omega problem(Computer)
« Reply #8 on: 10 October 2008, 09:01:16 »

Multiboot systems - rule of thumb install older op systems first.  If you do it other way round will overwrite boot.ini file on c: drive.  Just then boot off o/s CD into recovery mode (DOS) and there are utils there that will reset for mltiboot

One of my systems can multiboot into 5 op systems (incl Linux for TB)
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