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Old 06-08-2006   #4 (permalink)
Andre Da Costa [Extended64]


 
 

Re: Dual boot with different hard drives

No, the Windows Vista boot manager takes over everything, XP is located
under Earlier Version of Windows entry which you will see when you boot your
PC. Select that and press enter.
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"Sheep" <Sheep@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F6D7B931-55FF-440C-A3EF-5C269EF161FF@microsoft.com...
> Thanks for the swift reply! I was reading something about the vista dual
> boot screen, if I have the XP as my C: drive, will the regular old dual
> boot
> screen show up at startup and let me pick the OS? Also, I'm using the
> microsoft MCE remote, and my TV tuner is a Happauge PVR-150. Thanks
> again!
>
> Ryan
>
> "Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:
>
>> Yes, just make sure you launch setup from within XP and Custom when the
>> option is made available and select partition on the other drive you
>> created
>> for Vista. The remote should work if your tuner is compatible with Vista.
>> Which brand and model is the remote?
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>> Andre
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>> "Sheep" <Sheep@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:80BE79DE-53F8-4A3F-AC47-8F24C7B639AB@microsoft.com...
>> >I have four physical hard drives, and I want to make a partition on my
>> >D:
>> > drive specifically for vista. If I have my XP on my C: drive, and put
>> > vista
>> > on its own partition on a different hard drive, will get a dual boot
>> > screen
>> > when my computer boots up? I'd rather not make a new partition on the
>> > drive
>> > that has XP on it. Also on a side note, does the media center remote
>> > work
>> > with vista media center? Thanks.

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