Hi,
Changing the BIOS boot order is fine, just a bit cumbersome compared to
using a boot manager. Using this method should have no affect on your XP
files.
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Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help -
www.rickrogers.org
"Ray" <black_bart100@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Not quite but sort of.
>
> When I installed Vista I pulled all my other drives (XP) except one, and
> used that one for Vista. Now I'm thinking of going to a dual boot system,
> and to save having to reinstall Vista I have an option in the BIOS where I
> can choose which hard drive boots first, if I were to use this could it
> cause any grief with my XP files?
> Whichever OS was running would be able to "see" the other drive, but
> wouldn't this be the same as a regular dual boot, I've never used dual
> boot before so I don't know.
>
> Ray