another Vista....?

Elvis2

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on my main machine?

my b/u box info:
2400+ XP
MSI NF2 mb
768 mgs. pc2700 ram
9700 Pro
40gig hd....

or

buy a new WD 250gig, 16mg cache sata drive, partition that and install it in my main rig and install vista to that. the last thing i want to do is hose my mainr rig but i have that totally backed up on an external drive.

tia ;)
 

Navid

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Don't install Vista on your main hard drive unless you are comfortable taking chances. It took me a whole day of work to figure out how to set up everything on a single hard drive with XP on one partition and Vista on another.

Vista hosed things multiple times by taking over the boot order etc. I backed up everything first and have images of my XP OS partition as well.
I am using XP as my main OS now since I cannot get my X-Fi to work under the 64 bit version of Vista. My printer (ML-2010) and scanner (HP 2200c) do not work under Vista either.

Don't bank on having Vista as your main OS. It may take a while for all the drivers to become available.
 

Elvis2

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my current XP Pro SP2 os is installed on a pair of Raptors in RAID 0 ( C drive). i was thinking of installing a third sata drive and loading Vista on that. will it give me a dual boot option?
opinions?
tia
 

rkoenn

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Read my post on this page about what happened to me today. I installed Vista on my machine on a spare drive and my XP was on a RAID 0 and disconnected during the Vista install. Now XP will not boot, machine hard resets. Take a look at my post, it explains everything and I still haven't figured out how to recover. About to do a repair recovery. BE CAREFUL!!!
 

dev0lution

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I originally was planning to install Vista on a partition off of my Cdrive. Had some unrelated (to the partition) install issues, and now (after reading some posts) I'm glad I installed on a totally separate disk.
 

Cardio

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Originally posted by: Elvis2
my current XP Pro SP2 os is installed on a pair of Raptors in RAID 0 ( C drive). i was thinking of installing a third sata drive and loading Vista on that. will it give me a dual boot option?
opinions?
tia

Good luck trying to get 3 SATA's to work. It doesn't even seem to like 2.
 

Navid

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I have 2 SATA drives with Vista 64 and XP on two partitions on one of the drives.