I am pretty sure there is a command in the recovery console to scan all drives and add anything not already there in the boot sequence -- do a help in the recovery console for more information.
However, your XP may or may not work correctly on the new hardware -- I have had mixed results in such cases and the drive letter has to be the same i.e. if it was D in the old system it has to be D when using the dual boot -- otherwise nothing will work. Vista seems to always change its disk to C, no matter what, so you may have a good time with all this. You may have to reboot the xp many times while it reconfigures itself, so unless you have a lot of software, you may as well do a clean install. on Saturday 12/08/2007 Michael Wosnick([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > 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 > ************************************************************************ -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * ==> 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 ************************************************************************
