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Ultimate: clean re-install, need some advice..
Latoon Lat...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista performance_maintenance Hello RC White, I installed Vista Ultimate from the DVD, it told me that the upgrade option was disabled and that I should do a clean install. It did offer to partition the corrupted hard drive, which I let it do and it

Vista partition recognition / windows xp partition recognition?
Ultimately i tried installing vista 1) on a clean hard drive 2) on a hard drive partioned with xp installed on the 2nd partition 3) with two hard drives where xp was installed on the second hard drive. In the first two cases, the istallations froze eartly one (between 21 and 53 %) and in the last case , I installed

migrating xp installation to virtual pc on vista using backup and
Andy 1...@2.3 microsoft public windows vista general Bios settings, Hard Disk Boot Priority (Award) or Hard Disk Drives (AMI), Move the second hard drive to the top. On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:12:00 -0800, tomjonesrocks <tomjonesro...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: For work I need a XP install to run a VPN client.

Myth that XP won't install on a bare Intel Mac PC
slappy434 slappy434.35g...@no-mx.forums.net microsoft public windows vista installation_setup I am doing a similar type of thing. I've already cloned my original 80GB hard drive onto a new 160GB hard drive (80GB partition) and I'm running my same copy of XP just fine. I'm ready to install Vista business on the

How to create partition with fdisk, then install vista on one
(I always reserve the first partition on the first HD - traditionally Drive C:, but not always, especially with Vista - as the System Partition for just the few startup files, and never install Windows/Vista in that partition; it always goes to a separate volume and possibly to a second or third hard drive.

Tried Vista 64-bit, but sticking with XP 32-bit
I installed it, by booting from the Vista DVD, selecting the new hard drive, formatted it from there, and installed Vista onto it. the system with the Vista dvd you will get variation of the drive lettering (no real problem) and will have the boot menu after you install Vista on the second drive or partition.

Installed Vista dual boot, think I screwed up!
My original OS was installed on one hard drive with Windows XP. I wanted to evaluate Windows Vista so I purchased a second hard drive (both drives are SATA) I now wish to go with Vista only (don't scoff I like it) what will happen if I remove the XP drive and re-install the Vista drive on SATA port one? does

QUESTION: Multiple Hard Drives to Boot To??
Pedro Pe...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista installation_setup Hi Aaron, Did you managed to restore your windows? I'm having the same problem and i have no idea how to fix this... Thanks Pedro "Aaron Gray" wrote: Installing XP on a second hard drive has clobbered Vista on the primary drive.

Vista and Solid State Hard Drive
"retired fire" wrote: Thanks, I will try to explain it in detail: After installing Vista Business on a Sata 160 gig (clean install), I did a Complete PC Backup to a second hard drive (100 gig PATA drive). All went great, and the backup saved to the second hard drive.... I then removed the Sata System Drive,

OT Windows Vista and requirements
... xp. there are also vista advantages too hope some one has an answer for me Was the drive with XP on it connected and powered up when you installed Vista on the 2nd hard drive? The Vista installer should have set up a dual-boot with XP if it could see the existing XP OS. If you are willing to re-install Vista,

Vista u/g arrived, but do I install?
Andy bemac...@yahoo.co.uk windows-vista I have XP on my machine. I wanted to try Vista. I added a second hard drive and installed Vista from boot onto that. boot that I won't be able to boot back to my old systems anymore. So, do I still have the option to boot to previous systems if I install Vista? thanks, liu.

Vista problem with 2 sata hd
Since I have the SATA motherboard I'll need to purchase an IDE drive controller to get my second hard drive up and running. During the attempt to install over Vista I got an XP error message that said: Cannot create folder C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\WINS I had the option to Try Again or Abort the install.

Booting vista alongside xp
Install it internally with a standard 100Mb EIDE or with a faster SATA interface. Install the game of your choice on that drive and play it. If the hard drive is slower, it doesn't matter how fast the interface is. If the interface can't use 100% of its potential bandwidth then it may limit access speed.

Microsoft throws in the towel on Vista
After the install, the PC would only boot into Vista and not into XP, so he (perhaps rashly) reformatted the Vista drive in order to remove it from his system. Now the PC won't boot at all from the hard drive. We have successfully booted from an XP installation CD and entered the Recovery Console.

Attempt to install second hard drive
Install the newer version of Windows booting from the install CD/DVD and install it on the second hard drive. By default as long as you install the older version first, you should end up Wishing to avoid any interference, I bought another SATA drive in order to try Vista home premium. It all runs problemless.

XP to vista
Before committing tot he mor destructive path recommended in that article, ff you have an XP install disk, you may be able to boot to the XP install command Here I upgrade to Vista Home Premium and can't accsess my second drive unless I upgrade to Ultimate. Is that just rediculase? Thanks "freddy" wrote: Hi

dual boot xp and vista...with vista recovery dvd
The letters are only temporary and get reassigned from time to time, but the names are written to the hard drive and will be the same, no matter which Windows version is Any help as to how I can change partition drive letter in vista to D: or how I can get them(op systems) to both boot without clean install?

Changing Dual Boot Priority
Richard rfeir...@nycap.rr.com comp sys laptops One of the alleged magic tricks you can do with a laptop and a high end version of Vista is install a "Hybrid" Hard Drive or a second Hard Drive consisting of one of all solid state memory instead of a rotating disk. Has anyone tried this yet?

How To Install XP over Vista
Mike The "extra harddrive" approach <clipped> I didn't think about using that with my XPS 410 desktop but now that you mention it, my recent 250G second hard drive only In case anyone reading this is interested in the $69 hard drive mentioned above, here is a link: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?

Ultimate: clean re-install, need some advice..
With Vista this is not necessary. You can install Vista on C: and then installed XP on D (or XP on C: and Vista on D:) it doesn't really matter. If the bootmgr file is on the second hard drive then we have a problem. I regularly dual booted with XP and Vista but one of the downsides is that, when you boot to XP