Dual boot

[keithg]

I have a computer with 2 Sata2 hard drives on one I have "XP Pro" and on the other I have just installed "Vista Ultimate".

Is it possible to have a dual boot option on start up so that I don't have go into the BIOS to select which hard drive I want to boot from?

The MB is a Gigabyte GA-M55plus-S3G

Thanks

Keith

[ACtheTROLL]

vista can be a little quirky - it tends to kill restore points

http://apcmag.com/5485/dualbooting_vista_and_x p

if you start oldest first all you have to do is install xp ... then install vista (yes it's that simple) also works with
98 <> xp, 98<>vista or 98<>XP<>vista

the alternative is to use virtual pc 2007 (it's free)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.asp x?********=04D26402-3199-48A3-AFA2-2DC0B40A73B 6&displaylang=en

or virtual box
http://virtualbox.en.softonic.com/

[peanut]

If you need to reinstall XP, won't you have to reinstall Vista on the virtual machine too?

[ACtheTROLL]

no I think you misunderstand P
you could use VM to dual boot .... but it's complicated

I'm saying EITHER dual boot (which is easy enough ... but vista can be odd) OR use VPC2007 to run one OS from another
that'sthe beauty of VPC

you can install it on either Vista or XP
and install virtually (;-) any other operating system as a virtual machine. - vista on vista - vista on XP

you can even create a network of machines (you need a shedload of memory ... but it works).

I use it for testing ... load your OS ... snapshot .... use and break ... restore snapshot .... start again.

even better ... catch a virus and it's trapped in the VM ... so you can afford to be reckless