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Dual hard drive booting between XP/Vista

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tomofv   02-28-2007 at 08:02:16 AM

Hey guys,

I've dived into this face first and it's not working so well. My original OS is Vista RC1 (formatted to install). I've got this on my C drive, set as primary. I also have two more physical hard-drives, D and E. I've installed XP on D, but now I'm lost as how I am to boot XP and then swap back to Vista in the most optimal way.

Any help? Thanks guys :)

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iceisles   02-28-2007 at 05:17:13 PM
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You need to set your BIOS boot priority to have the D: drive boot first. Your BIOS will always boot the first OS that it detects.

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ferrazf   03-01-2007 at 02:41:49 AM
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An easy way to go about it is use partition magic to set the partition you want active

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