Vista - Not another Dual Boot Question

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

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
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"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

"Ray" <black_bart100@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:684520D7-FF20-4A7D-AE56-A031A614E34D@microsoft.com...
> 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

I basically ran the installation from my XP instance and performed a clean
install onto a separate drive. Once Vista was installed I configured it to
prompt me before booting. Right click My Computer, Advanced System
Settings, Startup and Recovery Settings. You can edit the boot options at
the top of the menu under System Startup.