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Another 7 and XP Dual Boot Question
I stumbled into this forum this morning, while researching dual booting with two hard drives, and this looks like a great forum. I see there are a lot of questions about dual booting, but after reading through some of them, I'm still not sure what works for me.
I just ordered a new mb, i5, hd, memory, and Windows 7, and should have it early next week. I will be removing my WD 500GB Blue, which has XP SP3 on it, from my MSI i650 when I make the changeover.
My plan to date is to assemble the new system, install the XP hd and see what happens.
Will I need to do a clean install of XP? A repair install?
After XP is installed and booting, I would then install the new hd and in the bios set the new hd as the primary, and install Windows 7.
Somehow, this sounds too easy to me.
Do I need to install Windows 7 first?
I would like to have Windows 7 as my C drive, and XP as my H drive. Right now my XP hd is my H drive.
It is my understanding that in order to select which OS will boot, one must make the selection in the BIOS, but from what I have read, it sounds like there are other options.
I'm a bit of a greenhorn, so understanding formatting and partitions is not one one of my strengths.
If anyone could explain the process in laymen's terms, I would greatly appreciate it__Thanks