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Old 02-23-2008   #1 (permalink)
A J Ricaud


 
 

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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Old 02-23-2008   #2 (permalink)
peter


 
 

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

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> 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.
My System SpecsSystem Spec
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