Thanks to Tony and John for answers to my previous question. A related question as a follow up, please.
Next week I am going to take delivery of a new Dell XPS with Vista preloaded. I want to drop in a second hard drive from my current machine – that drive happens to be my current XP boot drive. I want to create a dual boot system, and I have read many articles about how to dual boot Vista and XP whether Vista is already on the machine first or vice versa. However, every method I have read depends upon actually actively installing the second OS. In my case, I want to know if there is some way to configure the dual boot WITHOUT actually reinstalling XP, since in effect when I drop the old hard drive in, XP will essentially be preinstalled, just not recognized (I presume) Is it possible to force Vista to recognize that XP is there on the second drive and allow me the choice of booting from XP. In other words, is there a simple way to make the Vista bootloader know about XP already installed on the second drive? Michael No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.17/1178 - Release Date: 12/8/2007 11:59 AM ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
