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malam   12-18-2007 at 05:25:32 AM

Two days ago, I replaced my motherboard, cpu,and one SATA drive. I had two IDE drives in the old system which was running XP. Problem #1 - after the installation the system, the XP would not load. I installed Vista on the SATA drive - vista is running ok, but I had no access to the data in the IDE drive - always access denied. So i figured, I would buy a second SATA drive and copy all the XP drive on it and try to repair XP. The XP repair did not work- the system kept rebooting. I have disconnected the IDE drives and now have two SATA drives running. Vista is on the first one and the second is now reformatted clean. Here is what I would like to do:

1. Have Vista on one SATA drive
2. Have Windows XP on a second SATA drive. I am hoping that once XP is installed, I may be able to access some of the data in the IDE drive. I may need help then to change the security setting for the folders ??

Where do I start ? Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks.

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roadrunner197069   12-18-2007 at 06:23:54 AM
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I think I read something about you have to have XP first and then add vista to get the dual boot to work. I havent tried it myself.

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malam   12-19-2007 at 04:20:00 AM
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Thanks "roadrunner", I reformatted both SATA drives and installed XP first and then the Vista. It has taken me hours to do. I will try and access my old XP data on the IDE drive next. I'm having my fingers crossed.

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roadrunner197069   12-19-2007 at 04:24:48 AM
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Cool. Let me know how it goes.

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Scotteq   12-19-2007 at 03:50:29 PM
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You could have just fixed the bootloader... http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=100672

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malam   12-20-2007 at 03:09:17 AM
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Thanks guys. I think I am quite happy with the setup so far - needs a bit of fine tunning and re-installing my old applications. You have been very helpful.

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