Can Vista and XP be dual booted from separate disks?

**driverdownloads** · 21-Mar-2007, 11:45 PM

Is it possible to dual boot Windows Vista and Windows XP Pro if each are installed on separate hard drives?

I just bought a Toshiba Satellite A135-S4487 laptop that came loaded with two separate hard drives, one holding 120 GB and the other holding 100 GB. It also came loaded with Vista Home Premium which I don't really want, but, having paid for it, don't really want to throw away either.

I've understood in the past that XP, and I presume Vista, get pretty proprietary about the drives they are installed on, and may not permit the use of conventional boot loaders to control which system the machine boots into, but since I have two physical drives, I thought there might be a way around it.

The BIOS setup screen allows the boot order to be set explicitly, so I'm thinking that I might be able to install XP Pro on the second hard drive and then sw

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driverdownloads Fixed Error! Posts: 1,672 Join Date: Mar 2007 Rep Power: 3 IM:	Can Vista and XP be dual booted from separate disks? Is it possible to dual boot Windows Vista and Windows XP Pro if each are installed on separate hard drives? I just bought a Toshiba Satellite A135-S4487 laptop that came loaded with two separate hard drives, one holding 120 GB and the other holding 100 GB. It also came loaded with Vista Home Premium which I don't really want, but, having paid for it, don't really want to throw away either. I've understood in the past that XP, and I presume Vista, get pretty proprietary about the drives they are installed on, and may not permit the use of conventional boot loaders to control which system the machine boots into, but since I have two physical drives, I thought there might be a way around it. The BIOS setup screen allows the boot order to be set explicitly, so I'm thinking that I might be able to install XP Pro on the second hard drive and then sw Source:Can Vista and XP be dual booted from separate disks? \| Ask MetaFilter

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