Originally posted by: SerpentRoyal
Originally posted by: manimal
Check your local frys for these, they are still in stock at the one near me, indiana clearanced at 79 bucks no rebate. I went and got an extra one and they still had a bunch, the guys there keep trying to talk me out of buying them lol, their techs swear up and down that these are the worst boards they ever used lol I told them I would buy out the lot for 300 bucks-they had 7, their manager laughed at me.
Maybe one of you guys would see a simple fix for the last little problem I am having. I am trying to get my dual boot setup going and I cant get the XP drive to boot. I ran easy bcd after I installed the vista drive and it was a no go. I have the xp drive on sata 1 and vista on sata 2 and I even tried copying over the boot ini and hal.dll and the ntldr ntldrmgr and xp still will not load. If anyone knows an easy fix I would greatly be indebted.
You know stupid Californians...we clean out all the red tag specials within one shift.
The esiest way to run a double boot rig is to set up two primary C partitions on the same HDD. I will describe the technique for PartitionMagic, but the general principle should remain constant.
Use PM to split the boot HDD into
two primary partitions. Set the
1st Primary partition active, boot into it, and install XP.
Reboot PC and use PM to set the
2nd Primary partition active, boot into it, and install Vista.
Go into windows and install PQBoot (or the equivalent boot loader bundled with newer PM).
Use PQBoot or the installed boot loader to switch between the XP and Vista. The inactive primary partition will be hidden from view.