Dual boot - XP and Vista

diy-newby <asas@asas.com>, the hairy-bummer and teary-eyed bum-fiddler
who likes abusive ham shanking with squids, and whose partner is a party
girl with a massive cock-chafer, wrote in
<XNadnYVgzakbdf7bnZ2dnUVZ8seinZ2d@pipex.net>:
> Hi
> I am wanting to try out Vista, primarily to check out the media centre
> functionality.

Media centre, be it in Vista or XP, is crap. It may be ok for the odd wierd
sandwich who prefers to be inconvenienced and ****ed about but personally I
don't like it at all.
That said, I only really use Media centre to watch TV or at least I did
before I finally got totally ****ed off with it's limitations and installed
a spare TV card into another (always on) computer.

> I currently have XP installed on a 40 gb HDD which only has around 15gb
> free. I have a second 250gb HDD with plenty of free space. I know I need
> to create another partition to install VISTA but does it need to be on the
> same physical HDD as the XP installation?
>

You can do it pretty much how you please, I threw a couple of grand at a new
system built solely for Vista.
If you don't have the space for another machine then you might prefer to
keep XP and Vista completely seperated by pulling the XP disk out and using
the larger drive. You might prefer to buy a drive bay and a spare caddy so
you can swap the drives without pulling the side off the case.

You should partition the hard drive with around a 60GB partition for Vista,
that's plenty and still leaves enough of the drive for a second, useable
partition.

> Can I just create a partition on the second 250gb HDD and install VISTA
> there?
>
> Thanks
>

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