Vista - Yet another dual boot question

Hi, I thought I would be fine on this, but after having read through a few
posts I'm more confused than ever.
At present I have two hard disks on my machine, I have XP Pro on my first
disk, c: and the second drive has a 20GB backup partition on it fData from
c I also have set up my virtual memory on a 3GB partition (pon the second
hard drive as well. Both drives are 80 GB sata. (side note - I noticed a very
significant speed boost after doing this with the virtual memory)
So, what's my best plan of attack here, I want to install Vista 64 on my
computer and dual boot with XP Pro. Do I just pop the dvd in the drive and
clcik through the installation?
I do expect to maintain XP Pro as my main OS, Vista will most likely be
wiped out after a period of time.
I just thought I had better plan this out to make sure I can access my XP
Pro without any problems.
Cheers from Peter.

"pmccrackan" <pmccrackan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:51CD7694-5F69-4198-87FC-962489B8C76A@microsoft.com...
> Hi, I thought I would be fine on this, but after having read through a few
> posts I'm more confused than ever.
> At present I have two hard disks on my machine, I have XP Pro on my first
> disk, c: and the second drive has a 20GB backup partition on it fData
> from
> c I also have set up my virtual memory on a 3GB partition (pon the
> second
> hard drive as well. Both drives are 80 GB sata. (side note - I noticed a
> very
> significant speed boost after doing this with the virtual memory)
> So, what's my best plan of attack here, I want to install Vista 64 on my
> computer and dual boot with XP Pro. Do I just pop the dvd in the drive and
> clcik through the installation?
> I do expect to maintain XP Pro as my main OS, Vista will most likely be
> wiped out after a period of time.
> I just thought I had better plan this out to make sure I can access my XP
> Pro without any problems.
> Cheers from Peter.

The way I did it, and the way I have always added extra operating systems is
by using BootitNG. www.bootitng.com It's the only sure-fire way I know of
for the average person to make sure that installing a new OS does not mess
up your main OS. I can supply details if you are interested in going this
route, and there are instructional videos on the website as well.

Lee

Lee Chapelle wrote:
> "pmccrackan" <pmccrackan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:51CD7694-5F69-4198-87FC-962489B8C76A@microsoft.com...
>
>> Hi, I thought I would be fine on this, but after having read through a
>> few
>> posts I'm more confused than ever.
>> At present I have two hard disks on my machine, I have XP Pro on my first
>> disk, c: and the second drive has a 20GB backup partition on it
>> fData from
>> c I also have set up my virtual memory on a 3GB partition (pon the
>> second
>> hard drive as well. Both drives are 80 GB sata. (side note - I noticed
>> a very
>> significant speed boost after doing this with the virtual memory)
>> So, what's my best plan of attack here, I want to install Vista 64 on my
>> computer and dual boot with XP Pro. Do I just pop the dvd in the drive
>> and
>> clcik through the installation?
>> I do expect to maintain XP Pro as my main OS, Vista will most likely be
>> wiped out after a period of time.
>> I just thought I had better plan this out to make sure I can access my XP
>> Pro without any problems.
>> Cheers from Peter.
>
>
> The way I did it, and the way I have always added extra operating
> systems is by using BootitNG. www.bootitng.com It's the only sure-fire
> way I know of for the average person to make sure that installing a new
> OS does not mess up your main OS. I can supply details if you are
> interested in going this route, and there are instructional videos on
> the website as well.
>
> Lee

Are they still charging $35 for BootItNG?

"Ron Miller" <millerDOT90@osu.edu> wrote in message
news:%23IlBJ5NjGHA.4748@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Lee Chapelle wrote:
>> "pmccrackan" <pmccrackan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:51CD7694-5F69-4198-87FC-962489B8C76A@microsoft.com...
>>
>>> Hi, I thought I would be fine on this, but after having read through a
>>> few
>>> posts I'm more confused than ever.
>>> At present I have two hard disks on my machine, I have XP Pro on my
>>> first
>>> disk, c: and the second drive has a 20GB backup partition on it fData
>>> from
>>> c I also have set up my virtual memory on a 3GB partition (pon the
>>> second
>>> hard drive as well. Both drives are 80 GB sata. (side note - I noticed a
>>> very
>>> significant speed boost after doing this with the virtual memory)
>>> So, what's my best plan of attack here, I want to install Vista 64 on my
>>> computer and dual boot with XP Pro. Do I just pop the dvd in the drive
>>> and
>>> clcik through the installation?
>>> I do expect to maintain XP Pro as my main OS, Vista will most likely be
>>> wiped out after a period of time.
>>> I just thought I had better plan this out to make sure I can access my
>>> XP
>>> Pro without any problems.
>>> Cheers from Peter.
>>
>>
>> The way I did it, and the way I have always added extra operating systems
>> is by using BootitNG. www.bootitng.com It's the only sure-fire way I know
>> of for the average person to make sure that installing a new OS does not
>> mess up your main OS. I can supply details if you are interested in going
>> this route, and there are instructional videos on the website as well.
>>
>> Lee
>
> Are they still charging $35 for BootItNG?

I think it's $39, still one of the best software values.

I cannot find any info on BootitNG.com, seems to be a dead link, tried
google, and all the spelling variations I could think of.
Anyway, I'm not all that interested in buying software to help with dual
booting. I would prefer to learn the good, bad and the ugly points myself.
thanks anyway.

"Lee Chapelle" wrote:

> "pmccrackan" <pmccrackan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:51CD7694-5F69-4198-87FC-962489B8C76A@microsoft.com...
> > Hi, I thought I would be fine on this, but after having read through a few
> > posts I'm more confused than ever.
> > At present I have two hard disks on my machine, I have XP Pro on my first
> > disk, c: and the second drive has a 20GB backup partition on it fData
> > from
> > c I also have set up my virtual memory on a 3GB partition (pon the
> > second
> > hard drive as well. Both drives are 80 GB sata. (side note - I noticed a
> > very
> > significant speed boost after doing this with the virtual memory)
> > So, what's my best plan of attack here, I want to install Vista 64 on my
> > computer and dual boot with XP Pro. Do I just pop the dvd in the drive and
> > clcik through the installation?
> > I do expect to maintain XP Pro as my main OS, Vista will most likely be
> > wiped out after a period of time.
> > I just thought I had better plan this out to make sure I can access my XP
> > Pro without any problems.
> > Cheers from Peter.
>
> The way I did it, and the way I have always added extra operating systems is
> by using BootitNG. www.bootitng.com It's the only sure-fire way I know of
> for the average person to make sure that installing a new OS does not mess
> up your main OS. I can supply details if you are interested in going this
> route, and there are instructional videos on the website as well.
>
> Lee
>

On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 15:54:47 -0700, "Lee Chapelle" <no@email.com>
wrote:

>"Ron Miller" <millerDOT90@osu.edu> wrote in message
>news:%23IlBJ5NjGHA.4748@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> Lee Chapelle wrote:
>>> "pmccrackan" <pmccrackan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>> news:51CD7694-5F69-4198-87FC-962489B8C76A@microsoft.com...
>>>
>>>> Hi, I thought I would be fine on this, but after having read through a
>>>> few
>>>> posts I'm more confused than ever.
>>>> At present I have two hard disks on my machine, I have XP Pro on my
>>>> first
>>>> disk, c: and the second drive has a 20GB backup partition on it fData
>>>> from
>>>> c I also have set up my virtual memory on a 3GB partition (pon the
>>>> second
>>>> hard drive as well. Both drives are 80 GB sata. (side note - I noticed a
>>>> very
>>>> significant speed boost after doing this with the virtual memory)
>>>> So, what's my best plan of attack here, I want to install Vista 64 on my
>>>> computer and dual boot with XP Pro. Do I just pop the dvd in the drive
>>>> and
>>>> clcik through the installation?
>>>> I do expect to maintain XP Pro as my main OS, Vista will most likely be
>>>> wiped out after a period of time.
>>>> I just thought I had better plan this out to make sure I can access my
>>>> XP
>>>> Pro without any problems.
>>>> Cheers from Peter.
>>>
>>>
>>> The way I did it, and the way I have always added extra operating systems
>>> is by using BootitNG. www.bootitng.com It's the only sure-fire way I know
>>> of for the average person to make sure that installing a new OS does not
>>> mess up your main OS. I can supply details if you are interested in going
>>> this route, and there are instructional videos on the website as well.
>>>
>>> Lee
>>
>> Are they still charging $35 for BootItNG?
>
>I think it's $39, still one of the best software values.

It is a great value. It's less than either Ghost or Acronis True
Image, and it performs some of the functions of Partition Magic, as
well, doesn't it?