ok i have 2 500 gig drives and i was wondering how i get xp and vista. I have both operating discs and the only thing that worries me are the drivers. Im confused as to how they work because there are separate drivers for vista and xp... etc
anyways im not really sure what to do overall so if someone could maybe give a step by step that would be great. I am pretty experienced builder but i have never installed 2 operating systems before.
You can put XP on one disk, and install Vista on the other drive. I did this, and the first HD will come up if I do nothing. That is my XP drive, as most of my programs are set to run on XP. If I want the vista drive to boot up, I press F8 and select the drive that has vista on it. Just make sure you know which key to press at boot up to select the proper HD and you should be OK.
why is it f8 to switch drives?? and also will i be able to access the date on either drive?? like lets say i have 1000 songs on the xp drive, will i be able to listen to them while im on the vista hard drive?? like will the data be interchangeable??
also again the drivers- do i load seperate drivers for both the hard drives?? like nvidia drivers for vista when im on that, and then when i load xp i have to then load xp drivers??
also do i have to install for example the logitech cd on both vista and xp??
For each operating system you'll have to load it's specific set of drivers. So for your motherboard,video card and any other device that might need it's own drivers, you'll load the xp drivers for xp, and the vista drivers for vista.
With dual boot (I'm assuming on a single HDD) w/ XP and Vista will erase the Vista restore points when you load into XP. Basically you can't run a system restore to an earlier point, so if something goes wrong in Vista... it basically means you have to reinstall or fix it "the hard way".
I installed the beta service pack, went to windows XP when the Service pack destroyed my internet, lost a restore. I didn't because i was able to roll back the service pack, but jeez.
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