starship_troopers Posted September 5, 2007 CID Share Posted September 5, 2007 OK, so first off i am upping my cpu to a 2.8ghz athlon 64x2 5600+ . im getting 2 gigs of ram extra, a new hard drive, logitech G15 keyboard, and vista home premium from newegg. total is around 450. anyways, since i already have a 120gb hard drive with xp on it, and i want to put vista on the 160 i am getting how do i do that? every tutorial online i find has something to do with the vista boot loader being used for one hard drive. Is it the same idea? or do i have to do something with the boot.ini file in xp? sorry if its obvious, but for some reason after searching for a long while i am not getting hte answers i want. so basically i am saying two questions... 1. Is this stuff total with like 2 day shipping a good deal for the price im paying. and 2. can you provide me links/instructions on how to dual boot vista home premium and xp pro on 2 hard disks. thanks, starship Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inmate717 Posted September 5, 2007 CID Share Posted September 5, 2007 Ok here is my .02 Swimmer posted a great tutorial on how to dual boot xp and suse linux on the same hard drive. Me I never liked splitting up my drives so i have XP Pro on 2x200 GB Maxtors in Raid 0 and Vista Ultimate on a 250 GB Western Digital after hours of searching and trying here is what I did 1 install vista on your 160 but make sure the other drive is not plugged in 2 shutdown and switch your 120 to master 3 if you already have xp on the drive and its the same motherboard you should be fine if no you will have to repair windows 4 with xp and vista installed on your seperate drives and your pc shut down make your vista drive the master and the xp drive the slave (be careful if you are using SATA drives label the cables sounds stupid but it worked for me) 5 boot into vista 6 copy the boot.ini file from your windows xp drive to the root of your vista drive 7 download easyBCD http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1 8 use easyBCD to configure your boot sequence cause vista doesnt use a boot.ini file 9 reboot and try it if this helped thank Swimmer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starship_troopers Posted September 5, 2007 Author CID Share Posted September 5, 2007 OK, thanks man, im loving hte detailed instructions, but one question... what do you mean by Labeling the SATA drives. i have SATA so im just curious what that means. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starship_troopers Posted September 5, 2007 Author CID Share Posted September 5, 2007 ok here is a cool link i found. http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10877_11-6157570.html so i can just put in the second hard drive then vista should reckognize it as a place to install? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inmate717 Posted September 6, 2007 CID Share Posted September 6, 2007 Yea as far as I know you could just put the extra SATA drive in and run the installer. If you put the drive in and Vista will not play nice best thing you can do install them seperately. I wasnt really paying attention when i said label the drive cables i just put that in there if you had the same type of drives and same sizes since you have 2 different sizes you should be able in the bios to tell which drive to boot to first. like i said in my earlier post it makes it easier if you install on each drive seperately then copy the boot.ini file just my other .02 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starship_troopers Posted September 6, 2007 Author CID Share Posted September 6, 2007 ok tahnks, that helps so much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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