wondering how to set up

so right now i have a 250 gb hdd, which came with my computer, and i just bought a 1tb hdd recently, and moved all my videos and music to the new hdd, now have 107 gb free on my old hdd. Should i make a partition on my old hdd for windows 7 and dualboot with my existing windows xp installation, or install windows 7 on the new hdd and dualboot?

i heard the MBR will be on the first hdd no matter what, so i was originally thinking to make a partition on the old hdd and install all my games and apps on the new hdd.

I would put Windows on whichever disk performs the fastest, on a partition at the very beginning of the disk.

could i just use the new hard drive to install on, or would it be better to make a partition on it just for windows 7?

Perrybucsdad said:

Why dual boot?

In my case I do it mostly to play around with Windows 7, and to help people on the forum. I still use Windows XP as my primary OS.

I agree that he should at least create a separate partition for data. I would never recommend storing lots of important data on the same partition that Windows is installed to.

Perrybucsdad said:

sup3rsprt said:

In my case I do it mostly to play around with Windows 7, and to help people on the forum. I still use Windows XP as my primary OS.

But why not just create a virtual machine? So much easier if you ask me. You can be in both OS's at the same time.

I would love to VM but cant.

zigzag3143 said:

Perrybucsdad said:

sup3rsprt said:

In my case I do it mostly to play around with Windows 7, and to help people on the forum. I still use Windows XP as my primary OS.

But why not just create a virtual machine? So much easier if you ask me. You can be in both OS's at the same time.

I would love to VM but cant.

yea i think i wont be able to vm either, at least what that little app tells me. my cpu must be too old to virtualize.

Perrybucsdad said:

zigzag3143 said:

I would love to VM but cant.

Curious... why is that?

Intel core duo<g> not core 2

Its a DELL