geekapproved :
You can dual boot any two os's, I just think your going about it wrong.
I can't help you, as I can't think of a single reason why I would WANT to have two os's to begin with. What's the reason you need two os's?
Also in your first post you said "No budget limitations" and now your saying you want to build a "Cheap" machine.
I think you just need to figure out how to do what your trying to do, or forget it altogether. You don't need to build a separate machine for XP, nor do I understand why you would want to. Why not just use Vista or 7 and forget about XP?
thanks for caring so much in my thread.
I need XP because I want to play some games using EAX. Moreover, I have some games wich do not run on Vista. I happen to already own Vista and XP. I do plan on getting 7 in the future, but I have some old games to play first. I could simply install XP, but this OS has some trouble seeing my 1TB drives, wich are in a 3TB RAID. Doenst matter, the HDD in wich XP is installed is big enough already. So Im also putting Vista in order to acess my media files, like birthday videos, etc, I have a lot. In addition, I like Vista "Aero" and reflective buttons, its a better experience for me, I enjoy eye candy. To conclude, I happen to also have a HD-DVD drive, and I only have Vista drivers for it, not 7.
Now, XP and Vista in my system dont mix well together. I believe this is due to the fact that My XP is brasilian, while Vista is american or perhpas, due to the fact that I wsn installing them on the same HDD, even tough separate partitions.. Somehow they clash together. If I install Vista after XP, then XP ntldr goes mising. If I install XP after Vista, XP destroys Vista boot. If I repair Vista, Vista destroys XP's ntlder again.....so I give up.
Im now installing each on a separate drive and while the other is offline (still waiting for SSD to arrive in the mail for Vista...) And Im gonna set in BIOS wich drive to boot from each time I want to change OS. My only remainin questions is:
Can I leave both drives online all the time, or would it be wiser to leave the other off....I woudl hate to see one OS to destroy the other again...I do plan after finishin some old games to abandon XP/Vista and migrate to 7