Vista, XP, Vista

I have 4 SATA hard drives installed. Is it possible to have 2 Vista and 1 XP
loaded on 3 separate hard drives and boot from either of the three? Thank you

HDR

"HDR" <HDR@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
>I have 4 SATA hard drives installed. Is it possible to have 2 Vista and 1
>XP
> loaded on 3 separate hard drives and boot from either of the three? Thank
> you

Yes

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Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

yes ..it ..is..
peter
"HDR" <HDR@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B1F701E8-EB9E-49B8-8088-6F2E146BF60A@microsoft.com...
>I have 4 SATA hard drives installed. Is it possible to have 2 Vista and 1
>XP
> loaded on 3 separate hard drives and boot from either of the three? Thank
> you
>
> HDR

Hi,

Multi-booting using 3ed party software such as Bootit NG is common. Here's
an article to get you started.

Dual Booting Windows Vista & Windows XP:
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/dualboot.html

Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org
Member: http://dts-l.org


HDR wrote:
> I have 4 SATA hard drives installed. Is it possible to have 2 Vista and 1 XP
> loaded on 3 separate hard drives and boot from either of the three? Thank you
>
> HDR

Welp, it t'aint working for me. I will try it one more time to see if fresh
Vista instals will work.

HDR

"pete" wrote:

> yes ..it ..is..
> peter
> "HDR" <HDR@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:B1F701E8-EB9E-49B8-8088-6F2E146BF60A@microsoft.com...
> >I have 4 SATA hard drives installed. Is it possible to have 2 Vista and 1
> >XP
> > loaded on 3 separate hard drives and boot from either of the three? Thank
> > you
> >
> > HDR
>

HDR wrote:
> Welp, it t'aint working for me. I will try it one more time to see if fresh
> Vista instals will work.
>
> HDR
>
> "pete" wrote:
>
>> yes ..it ..is..
>> peter
>> "HDR" <HDR@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:B1F701E8-EB9E-49B8-8088-6F2E146BF60A@microsoft.com...
>>> I have 4 SATA hard drives installed. Is it possible to have 2 Vista and 1
>>> XP
>>> loaded on 3 separate hard drives and boot from either of the three? Thank
>>> you
>>>
>>> HDR

There are some problems with SATA drives which some people have
worked around by disconnecting all drives during the install except
the target drive, and reconnecting them afterwards. This apparently
is just an installer problem.

On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:32:01 -0700, HDR
<HDR@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
someone who said :

>I have 4 SATA hard drives installed. Is it possible to have 2 Vista and 1 XP
>loaded on 3 separate hard drives and boot from either of the three? Thank you

You must install them in order XP then Vista. check up on
BOOTSECT.exe for configuring each partition.

XP and Vista use incompatible multiboot schemes.
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