Two hard Drives

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I have 2 hard drives One has XP on it and the other is extra space I will be
installing Vista on the one with XP on it when i install it will anything
happen with the oher hard Drive?
 
I have 2 hard drives One has XP on it and the other is extra space I will
be
installing Vista on the one with XP on it when i install it will anything
happen with the oher hard Drive?
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No, installing Vista on the one drive should not affect any files on the
other drive.
 
No, but install Vista on a separate partition and give it enough space for
what you want to add to it if you want to gurarantee access to your XP
again--and I know some here would say to put Vista on the other hard drive
rather than to dual boot. I like dual boots because you can easily shortcut
to the other desktop but as it has been pointed out here, there is the
problem of system restore points on Vista (it has to be hidden by various
means to protect them), and the problem of Vista backups.

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No. I did a clean installation of Vista x64 over XP SP2 with a second
internal drive and three external drives and had no issues accessing the
files on the four data drives.
 
Check to see if your BIOS allows a quick change of boot drives (mine does)
and instead of creating a Dual boot machine, remove the XP drive, set the
other drive to master and do a clean install of Vista.. install the XP drive
as a slave to the new Vista drive.. you will now have access to either OS,
and each will read and work with all drives..

Setting up as above gets over all driver issues, and in the event that one
fails, you still have a full working version of the other.. there is no
requirement to do a repair on boot records.. also, if you decide that you no
longer want or require XP, you can just format the XP drive..
 
Good idea, but he can also use VistaBootPro to add the legacy drive to the
Vista boot and keep the benefits you mention, even if he doesn't have a
quick change BIOS.
 
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