not another dual boot question

Not quite but sort of.
When I installed Vista I pulled all my other drives (XP) except one, and used that one for Vista. Now I'm thinking of going to a dual boot system, and to save having to reinstall Vista I have an option in the BIOS where I can choose which hard drive boots first, if I were to use this could it cause any grief with my XP files? Whichever OS was running would be able to "see" the other drive, but wouldn't this be the same as a regular dual boot, I've never used dual boot before so I don't know.
Ray

Hi,
Changing the BIOS boot order is fine, just a bit cumbersome compared to using a boot manager. Using this method should have no affect on your XP files.
-- Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
"Ray" wrote in message

Not quite but sort of.
When I installed Vista I pulled all my other drives (XP) except one, and used that one for Vista. Now I'm thinking of going to a dual boot system, and to save having to reinstall Vista I have an option in the BIOS where I can choose which hard drive boots first, if I were to use this could it cause any grief with my XP files? Whichever OS was running would be able to "see" the other drive, but wouldn't this be the same as a regular dual boot, I've never used dual boot before so I don't know.
Ray

"Ray" wrote in message

Not quite but sort of.
When I installed Vista I pulled all my other drives (XP) except one, and used that one for Vista. Now I'm thinking of going to a dual boot system, and to save having to reinstall Vista I have an option in the BIOS where I can choose which hard drive boots first, if I were to use this could it cause any grief with my XP files? Whichever OS was running would be able to "see" the other drive, but wouldn't this be the same as a regular dual boot, I've never used dual boot before so I don't know.
Ray

I basically ran the installation from my XP instance and performed a clean install onto a separate drive. Once Vista was installed I configured it to prompt me before booting. Right click My Computer, Advanced System Settings, Startup and Recovery Settings. You can edit the boot options at the top of the menu under System Startup.