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Dual boot, but not partition

  • 17-05-2008 6:29pm
    #1
    corblimey
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    I bought a new pc a few weeks ago, and it seems to have been just in time, as my old one has now crashed spectacularly. I can save the hd, just about. I've got Vista on my new PC and the hd from the old pc has XP. Is there anyway of connecting them up so that I can boot into XP when I want and into Vista when I want. I'm suspecting not, as the second hd would need to be set up as a slave hd and therefore could never be booted into, but I thought I'd ask (is master and slave hd's still the way things are). All dual boot manuals I've seen start off with you partitoning your Vista drive and installing XP from scratch.


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  • #2
    Capt'n Midnight
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    not easily and if the old drive had windows OEM then you would not be licensed to do it either

    XP on the slave drive means you'll have problems with drive letters and registry even if you can modify the Vista drive to point the other drive

    you could disable the Vista drive in the BIOS so only the XP drive is seen.

    But no matter what you do you will still have a big problem if the new machine has a different hard drive controller as XP just won't boot


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