Giving vista a try , need help.

[bullseye69mech]

Bit the bullet and bought Vista Home Premium 64 bit for my Athlon x2 system.

How do I install Vista to a new drive and also still use XP on the second Hard Drive.

Planning on have Vista on 500gb Sata 3.0 Wd and already have XP on 500gb Sata 3.0 WD on another hard drive. System will have 2 Hard Drive both 500gb WD.

I was thinking that i could load Vistaon one drive and have the XP drive disconnected. When it finishes loading the reboot with the second drive connected up. I think i heard something about Vista will detect the Second OS and ask which one you want to boot to.

Someone help me out here if you know are can point me to a guide on how to do this...

Second Question

Should i just reuse the 250 WD EIDE drive instead of buying a new one. I think SATA 3 is faster than EIDE but can't remember.

Please help. Gearing up for Age of Conan....

 

[Dia01]

Put the cd in, while booting it should ask you to press any key to boot from cd, press key. Once you enter the serial key, you'll come to a screen that should display the 2 hard drives installed on your machine, select the selected hard drive you want to install vista on. Once installed, reboot, choose which OS to boot to from the provided selection and away you go.
Another way is to partition the existing drive, this way you can use only one HD and multiple OS's.

 

[twicksisted]

rather do a dual boot setup, this way you dont have to plug/ unplug stuff to get either OS...

to do this, create a partition on your harddrive (one partition for each OS)
Install XP first... then install Vista... vista will automatically creat the dual boot and youre set to go

 

[kenkickr]

Put the cd in, while booting it should ask you to press any key to boot from cd, press key. Once you enter the serial key, you'll come to a screen that should display the 2 hard drives installed on your machine, select the selected hard drive you want to install vista on. Once installed, reboot, choose which OS to boot to from the provided selection and away you go.
Another way is to partition the existing drive, this way you can use only one HD and multiple OS's.

This is the way I would do it since you already have XP installed. Also since you already have XP installed you will not need to disconnect the drive.

 

[AsRock]

Don't the problems start when you reinstall XP ?..

 

[kenkickr]

If you reinstall XP after installing VISTA then yes Vista will become badly corrupted AFTER vista is installed, but if XP is already installed then there should be no issues with Vista installing and once installed. I have my system dual booting with XP Pro 32-bit and Vista Home Premium x64 without any issues minus me not catching the ATI drivers for Vista putting its temp driver directory on my XP drive but that was a quick simple fix.

 

[AsRock]

If you reinstall XP after installing VISTA then yes Vista will become badly corrupted AFTER vista is installed, but if XP is already installed then there should be no issues with Vista installing and once installed. I have my system dual booting with XP Pro 32-bit and Vista Home Premium x64 without any issues minus me not catching the ATI drivers for Vista putting its temp driver directory on my XP drive but that was a quick simple fix.

Yeah i know about if XP is already installed. I'm doing that all ready lol. And no issue's till XP goes wrong and you want XP back on which in my case it would have to be on.

Wish i stayed with 2 copy's of XP x64 booting up of one drive really. Life was more simple then. Because what i do is reinstall one OS ready for the other to be formated. So if windows did freak out and would not boot or some thing there was no reason to sit there while reinstalling worrying about files that i wanted to keep.

Maybe vLite has a fix for this ?.. So Vista would not get messed up umm. If not i hope they do that lol.