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Geek Culture / Booting XP from a second HD while having Vista

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Posted: 17th Oct 2007 21:20
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I've got 2 HDs, one with Vista (master) and one with XP (slave) I tried to boot from the XP one but didn't work, any idea on how to do it? or should i reformat the main drive and install XP on then install Vista on the slave?

"Originally I was going to have a BS on it but you know how that would be. I can't walk around with the letters BS on me." More or less a qoute by Syndrome from Jack, Jack, attack
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Posted: 18th Oct 2007 00:39
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Hmm... What I did was install XP to partition "D" of my computer, which ended up changing partition "D" to partition "I", from which I reinstalled because the "I" drive is a stupid name, which made it partition "C". Afterwords I installed Vista to the "J" drive, which is the main partition. So, XP to slave, then Vista to master. I get a choice each time I start up my computer if I want to run an "older version of windows" or Vista. (Of course I choose Vista everytime. ^_^)

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Quote: "Of course I choose Vista everytime. ^_^)"


Why? Are you not a gamer?

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Posted: 18th Oct 2007 00:57 Edited at: 18th Oct 2007 00:58
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Quote: "Why? Are you not a gamer?"


Lol, why? most games work on Vista, ex: I´m playing quake 3 arena in Vista and Quake 3 arena its quite old game...


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I've heard of DBP not working and online gaming doesn't work from this forum and from friends.

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Posted: 18th Oct 2007 01:04 Edited at: 18th Oct 2007 01:04
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Quote: "I've heard of DBP not working and online gaming doesn't work from this forum"


Thats not true, DBP works on vista:

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=104612&b=1

And online game works too, as I told you I´m playing quake 3 arena and I have played it online many times, also Half life source deathmatch.


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Okay, I guess I stand corrected. It's just most people I associate with tell me they have gaming problems on Vista.

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Posted: 18th Oct 2007 01:28 Edited at: 18th Oct 2007 01:29
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Maybe certain games would not work, I'm not 100% sure, but on-line gaming it self works, I guess it may depends on the games if they compatibility with vista.


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Posted: 18th Oct 2007 01:30
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Quote: "most games work on Vista"


Most new games

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Posted: 18th Oct 2007 01:42 Edited at: 18th Oct 2007 01:52
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well, if you think quake 3 its a "new" game, then it is, but the first time I installed it was when Windows ME was just released in a Pentium III 500 Mhz with a Nvidia Riva TNT 2 with 32mg


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Wow, that's pretty fast.

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i did the same thing with Vista master and XP slave. i can't remember what program i used. but to make it so that you can choose which OS to boot from each time your pc boots up, get a program that edits your boot settings. run it in vista, add xp to the list, select the amount of time you want it to let you choose which to boot up to(or it will auto-boot to the master).

its just the gist of what i did. i hope i helped. if you get stuck and really need the name of the program, i'll try and find it.

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Posted: 18th Oct 2007 03:29 Edited at: 18th Oct 2007 03:29
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I don't recall having to use a program... From what I remember, Vista does all the work upon install... Just don't install Vista then XP, do XP first.


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Quote: "I don't recall having to use a program... From what I remember, Vista does all the work upon install... Just don't install Vista then XP, do XP first."


well, thats the thing, if he installed Vista first(like i did) then you can just download the nifty program so that you can edit your boot settings without having to reinstall anything. it saved me a lot of time.

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When I installed Vista first, then XP, it screwed over my vista install, so I was unable to do anything with Vista.

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I figured it out. I just reformated my slave and installed XP on, every time i want to go to XP i just change the boot order in bios

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