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28. July 2006 @ 19:24 |
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quick ? i have a 300 gb running vista beta which i boot from.and second is xp which is hooked up but i cant boot from it.is there a way i could set up pc to boot from one or the other.
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28. July 2006 @ 20:31 |
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get a partition maker than install it on the other harddrive,so when every ur pc starts up it will ask you where to boot from
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28. July 2006 @ 20:35 |
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Or you could go into bios/setup and select which hard drive to boot from,hit delete or F2 repeatedly (depending on computer) after powering on to enter bios, then select boot sequence,choose which drive to boot from.
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29. July 2006 @ 06:08 |
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get a partition maker than install it on the other harddrive,so when every ur pc starts up it will ask you where to boot from
were do do i get this program and how could i set it up. which one do i install it on the 200 or 300
the first hard drive master is now the 200gb and the 300 is slave
i tried entering bios and change around the order and did nothing
i used to boot from the 300 which was master(vista) so i changed the wires around in the pc and now oi am booting from (XP)the way it is now could i do something that i could boot from one or the other without switching the wires around
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29. July 2006 @ 08:11 |
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you need to format one of the hard drive and leave one of them with an operation system then when you get into the windows insert the windows cd and install a new operation system on the second harddrive !
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29. July 2006 @ 08:14 |
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I believe you can edit the boot.ini file so you can choose which disk to boot from.
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29. July 2006 @ 08:18 |
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I believe you can edit the boot.ini file
how do i do this
is there a easy way
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29. July 2006 @ 08:23 |
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Well if you dont hv any important data then it is easy to instal another window on the second hard drive through the operation system the when you install it every time you start the computer it will promp you to choose which windows you want to use !
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29. July 2006 @ 08:29 |
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1st hard drive has xp on it>this is the one i boot from
2nd hard drive has vista on it
HOW can i make the startup screen when i turn on pc make an option to boot from xp or vista
quote>>every time you start the computer it will promp you to choose which windows you want to use ! ok great how
thank you
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29. July 2006 @ 08:38 |
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i dont know how vista works , so i could suggest you to put your vista windows as the first one . when you login to windows vist insert your windows xp cd and make sure you choose `new instalation ` not ` upgrade` , and also make sure you install the windows xp on the other hord drive and then after you finish instalin the windows it will promp you to chose one of the windows !
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29. July 2006 @ 17:44 |
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well thanks but i dont have a windows xp disk.all i have is the recovery disks 6 of them.and i have already installed xp and vista.wish i could get a option to boot from one or the other
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30. July 2006 @ 11:35 |
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you can not becouse the two operation systems are not connected together to show you that option !
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30. July 2006 @ 11:47 |
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so theres no way to do this.well i tried partion maker last night and messed up xp.so i reformated .so now what i will try is reinstall vista (custom )and if it gives me an option to put vista on 300 there may be an option when pc boots to choose xp or vista.
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31. July 2006 @ 15:20 |
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well i got it to work.i instaled xp on the first hard drive.then installed vista on the 2nd and choose custom.now when pc start i get a choice to boot from earlier windows (xp )or microsoft windows (vista).i had lost all my stuff on xp .u live and learn
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31. July 2006 @ 20:29 |
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Wish you had waited till I saw this post. All you had to do was install Vista on a slave drive and you get the boot screen everytime. The only bad part is that if you don't select an earlier version it goes auto Vista. But like you said live and learn.
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1. August 2006 @ 04:13 |
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the first time i instal vista i unhooked the xp drive and never chose custom install .thats why i never got the sceen on start up.but now i know.
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