If you were troubleshooting your machine and were asked to disconnect the
hard drive what do you think would happen when you re-connected the hard
drive and tried to boot your machine?
Answer:
Assuming the drive was okay it would boot to whatever operating system was
on the hard drive.
You are removing your XP hard drive and installing a new hard drive in order
to install Vista. If you don't like Vista then just re-install the hard
drive with XP on it. In actually fact the scenario is no different to having
a desktop hard drive in a caddy and swapping and changing different caddies
to use different operating system.
My desktop has two hard drive and three operating systems, XP Vista and
Longhorn Server (beta). The longhorn server is on drive 2 but, because it is
a triple (you can also have dual) boot system the boot files are on drive 1.
If i remove drive 1 and try to boot to longhorn server it doesn't work
(because the boot files are on the drive i've removed) put drive 1 back and
longhorn server will boot.
You don't have that problem, all you are doing is removing one drive,
fitting another one and installing a new operating system. If you decide
Vista isn't for you all you've got to do is refit the hard drive with XP
on - all the motherboard details/drivers for your laptop are stored on the
individual hard drives, i.e, XP and Vista.
--
John Barnett MVP
Associate Expert
Windows - Shell/User
Web:
http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org
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http://vistasupport.mvps.org
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