"Kev" <Kev@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I am a keen gamer and although i love vista the compatability problems
> mean
> that i may need to set up dual boot.
>
> I have Vista home premium 64bit on my C drive right now.
>
> I plan to get another drive, get XP 64bit, instal it on that hard drive
> and
> have a dual boot sytem to allow me to play games i can't play right now.
>
> I have tried reading up but most of the info talks about dual boots with
> XP
> first or on partitions rather than seperate hard drives and talks about
> having to repair vista.
>
> So my question is: how would i set up my pc to have Vista on one drive
> and
> XP on the other and essentialy just have a start up menu to choose which
> one
> i want to use on that login?
>
> My logic states just instal on seperate hard drives and all things will be
> fine, but reading up it seems not the case, so basicaly HELP! 
)
>
> Any advice or help would be appreciated
I haven't tried this, but perhaps it would work.
With only one drive connected, install Vista. After doing your typical
setup configuration of first boot-up as a user, shutdown and connect the
second drive. On startup, as soon as you have control, remove the drive
letter from the second drive, so your Vista only sees the drive it is
installed on. Install WXP on the second drive, using a similar procedure.
Each time at boot up, hit the function key that allows selecting which drive
to boot from.
I'd be interested in hearing if this actually works and keeps the systems
separate so that both system's recovery stores work.
-Paul Randall