Re: [OT] Dual Boot O/S & Vista Beta

[Mal Lansell <mal@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

All you need to do is to install it to a different drive partition
than
the one where XP is installed.  You get asked where to install, so it's
pretty easy.  You end up with a choice of OSs at boot time, with Vista
as the default.

One major thing to note - if you are on a domain you MUST specify a
different computer name for the Vista install.  If you use the same name
as for XP, you will end up locked out of the domain when you boot into XP.

Mal



darren_karp2001 wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I need some tech advice regarding dual booting my PC.
>
> I have a new HD coming today and intend to install Windows Vista Beta
> on it. However, I don't want to mess around with my main XP boot
drive.
>
> Is there a way I can configure the system so I get to select which OS
> (and therefore which physical HD) gets booted up on start up?
>
> What I intend doing is installing the new 250GB HD and create a 50GB
> NTFS partition for vista.
>
> Any advice really appreciated.
> Darren
>
>