Kev

i am ok with the bios bit ans selecting drive priority, its the adding a
legacy entry bit i am not familiar with, can someone elaborate on how to do
that bit for me please? after that i'll give it a try (after backing
important stuff to DVD first) in the next week or so.

Thanks

Kev


"Brett I. Holcomb" wrote:

> It doesn't affect what you are doing.
>
>
> Kev wrote:
> > Ok i should have clarified a bit more, i meant: What does this mean for how i
> > instal a second OS? i kinda already got the fact that they would be
> > displayed and i had 30 secs to choose.
> >
> > i can't believe how complicated this is gonna be when it should be really
> > simple, and how can i overwrite the boot if its on a second hard drive?
> > surely that would prevent XP trying to take over as primary, what if i don't
> > have the vista one connected when i install the XP one? that way XP can't
> > overwrite the vista boot.
> >
> > "Brett I. Holcomb" wrote:
> >
> >> Default OS is the one that will be booted after the time to display list
> >> is up unless another has been chosen. In other words if you don't chose
> >> an OS in the time to display the default OS will be booted.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Kev wrote:
> >>> Ok, i just descovered something:
> >>>
> >>> in the advanced system menu, go to start up and recovery. in there there
> >>> are some settings that imply that vista can control which os i use.
> >>>
> >>> eg Default operating system
> >>> and time to display list of OS's
> >>>
> >>> so what does this mean, that it is as simple as i think (just instal XP on
> >>> second hard drive and make sure vista is primary boot) or is it still gonna
> >>> be complicated?
> >>>
> >>> "John Barnes" wrote:
>