Re: changing drive letters

On Mar 30, 3:36 pm, "tony pac" <t...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Of coarse when you install vista on the second hard drive you must have xp
on it first,don't use Dells upgrade assistant just boot from the vista disk
and choose clean install you can add all your drivers after wards.I am
absolutely not having any problems,it could because I am using 2 drives
instead one with a partion on it."Journey" <rain...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:37:14 -0700, "tony pac" <t...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I have 2 internal HD,there is free software that when you boot up a window
pops up and you just choose what drive you want to boot to,its called OSL
2000,just Google it you will find it,it works great.XP is on one drive &
vista on another drive.

OK, thanks for the info -- I'll check it out. In another thread I
thought I caught something about havinb both drives active at the same
time causing problems, but I didn't pay much attention to it. The OSL
2000 page does say that it supports Vista too so it may help with any
problems associated with that.

For sake of illustration...do I understand that:

You have XP on C.
You had XP on D, and did a 'clean' install of Vista over XP.

That is, you are not talking about XP and Vista on separate partitions
on the same physical drive?

I have WMCE on C:, and I wanted to try out Vista, but I didn't want to
dual boot from the same C: hard drive. I wanted to install Vista on a
new, second hard drive, D:, but I didn't know a boot manager existed
that would let you choose what physical drive to boot. At what point
does this program ask you to make a boot decision?

.

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