Kev

Ok thanks ladies and gents, leave that with me, and i'll get it sorted over
the next week or two (damn work interfering with more important things! hehe)
and i'll let you know how i get on by replying here.

Thanks for all the advice

-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:
>