re: Problem with dual botting vista and windows 2000 Saturday, November 18, 2006 at 9:30 pm Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Ray Bacon (3 messages posted) Frame, My initial experience had been to use separate drives and switching the OS by going into Bios to change boot order. But since my two drives were IDE and SATA, the bios choice started being ignored, and the prior drive continued to be the one selected (despite my change in the bios). I ended up using separate drives for separate OS's in two different ways: 1. Using removable drives, I would just shut down and trade the drives. 2. As a second option, I would keep both drives in the PC, but pull out the one I didn't want to be booted (disconnecting it), and reconnecting the one I wanted to use. The above methods have kept me from having to go into the bios when I wanted to switch OS. I have two pc's in different locations, on with one removable drive tray and the other with two removable drive trays. I also have a third drive (removable in the "one-tray" pc) on which I have two partitions, one with XP and one with Vista. Sorry for beating this to death, but over the last several weeks, I really got into this subject. --Ray B On Saturday, November 18, 2006 at 8:13 pm, frame wrote: >I got the best result installing multiple OS on seperate drives and choosing the >OS by selecting which drive is first in the Bios setup (holding del at boot to get >there). The system is ASUS K8V Delux with Promis and VIA RAID arrays. The Promis >RAID has Vista 32 bit and the VIA RAID has Vista 64 bit (with jumpers on the drives >to slow them down since this Via is older). Going to the bios setup and selecting >which array is the number 1 hard drive select the OS. The Vista 32 actualy sees >the Via raid as a 2nd drive (the Vista 64 does not. We will see what ASUS say about >it). Seems a clean way to test the systems as seperate indipendent installations. Written in response to: re: Problem with dual botting vista and windows 2000 (frame: Saturday, November 18, 2006 at 8:13 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Problem with dual botting vista and windows 2000 (kav: Tue, Nov 14, 2006, 11:51 am) re: Problem with dual botting vista and windows 2000 (Steve: Tue, Nov 14, 2006, 12:57 pm) re: Problem with dual botting vista and windows 2000 (Rick: Wed, Nov 15, 2006, 10:27 am) re: Problem with dual botting vista and windows 2000 (Rick: Wed, Nov 15, 2006, 10:30 am) re: Problem with dual botting vista and windows 2000 (Ray B: Wed, Nov 15, 2006, 10:47 pm) re: Problem with dual botting vista and windows 2000 (frame: Sat, Nov 18, 2006, 8:13 pm) re: Problem with dual botting vista and windows 2000 (Ray Bacon: Sat, Nov 18, 2006, 9:30 pm) re: Problem with dual botting vista and windows 2000 (DAVID B: Mon, Nov 20, 2006, 6:24 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Vista Discussion Forum