Dual boot with different hard drives

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I have four physical hard drives, and I want to make a partition on my D:
drive specifically for vista. If I have my XP on my C: drive, and put vista
on its own partition on a different hard drive, will get a dual boot screen
when my computer boots up? I'd rather not make a new partition on the drive
that has XP on it. Also on a side note, does the media center remote work
with vista media center? Thanks.
 
Thanks for the swift reply! I was reading something about the vista dual
boot screen, if I have the XP as my C: drive, will the regular old dual boot
screen show up at startup and let me pick the OS? Also, I'm using the
microsoft MCE remote, and my TV tuner is a Happauge PVR-150. Thanks again!

Ryan
 
Thanks again! One more thing and I'll leave you alone. I plan on using
partition magic to create my new partition for vista. When I'm done using
the beta, can I just format that partition and fuse it together with the
other partition on the drive to go back to one large partition, or will I
have to backup that other partition and format the whole drive? Thanks.
 
Yes, you can format the partition from within XP. I personally did
experience some issues trying to format the Vista partition from My Computer
in XP, I got a permission error, so I had to do the format from within
Partition Magic.

I would definitely backup my data before I merge back the partitions, there
is always a certainty of errors happening.
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