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| | Dual boot from separate drives I have XP and Vista as dual boot on a single drive. I want to put Vista on a second drive and dual boot, preferably w/o having to select the boot drive from the BIOS. I was planning to: 1. Copy the Vista files to a new drive using the Seagate utility; 2. Delete Vista from the XP (old) drive and expand XP to the whole drive. Any problems w/this scenario? If this is OK, how do I dual boot w/o going to the BIOS. Thanks. |
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| | Re: Dual boot from separate drives Hopefully you have XP and Vista in separate partitions on that one HD. Using the Seagate Utility Clone the Vista partition to the new drive Then from within XP delete the old Vista partition Insert the Vista DVD and do a start up repair....this would create the necessary dual boot files in the MBR on the XP drive and upon boot up you should be given the choice of which OS to start with. BUT you will not be able to format that XP drive without losing the ability to boot into Vista....without doing another repair. peter -- DISCLAIMER: If you find a posting or message from me offensive, inappropriate, or disruptive, please ignore it. If you don't know how to ignore a posting, complain to me and I will be only too happy to demonstrate... ;-) "A J Ricaud" <AJRicaud@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:289D1C8C-FBC4-4785-B566-BFE9B44C3DBB@xxxxxx Quote: > I have XP and Vista as dual boot on a single drive. I want to put Vista on > a > second drive and dual boot, preferably w/o having to select the boot drive > from the BIOS. > > I was planning to: > 1. Copy the Vista files to a new drive using the Seagate utility; > 2. Delete Vista from the XP (old) drive and expand XP to the whole drive. > > Any problems w/this scenario? > If this is OK, how do I dual boot w/o going to the BIOS. > Thanks. |
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