SSD & Dual Boot

[steve-pressman]

Getting a new PC in a few days with a OCZ Vertex Series 120GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-1VTX120G) a Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache and a Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB SATA-II 64MB Cache. To add to the mix Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit and a Asus ATI Radeon HD 5770 CuCore 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card.

I also want to use Win XP Pro on this rig but I am not too sure about which way to go setting it up. From what I have sourced you can not defrag a SSD but Win 7 uses a program called (Trim) So how will I be able to defrag XP if I also install that on the SSD? Would it be better to install Win 7 on the SSD and XP on the Seagate? If so in which order do I install them so that I can get a dual boot or does it not matter as the SSD will be my boot drive?

Regards

Steve

Oh here is the PC

"Ultima Viper" Intel Core i7 930 2.80GHz @ 4.00GHz DDR3 System [] Pro Gamer - Ultima

 

[theog]

I would go for Method Two in tutorial below.
Win7 on SSD (Disk0)
Win XP on Seagate (Disk1)

Have a read of those tutorials:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/8057-dual-boot-installation-windows-7-xp.html?ltr=D
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/66010-sata-drivers-load-windows-xp-setup-dual-boot.html
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/72185-sata-drivers-slipstream-into-windows-xp-cd.html

Use EasyBCD 2.0 in Win 7 & Win XP.
EasyBCD 2.0 Beta Builds - The NeoSmart Forums

A bit more reading.
BCDEDIT - How to Use - Page 7 - Windows 7 Forums
http://www.sevenforums.com/installation-setup/58188-added-xp-7-but-now-wont-boot.html
http://www.sevenforums.com/installation-setup/58680-solve-dual-boot-problem-windows-7-a.html
http://www.sevenforums.com/installation-setup/57634-dual-boot.html
http://www.sevenforums.com/installation-setup/58680-solve-dual-boot-problem-windows-7-a.html

Good luck with new Rig.

 

[steve-pressman]

Many thanks Og Apreeciate it

 

[theog]

Hi Steve.

You are welcome.

 

[abeeftec]

I have in issue that i have not found an answer for regarding dual booting Win 7 and XP on an SSD.

When I load 7 First and then I get to the part where i Make the partition. IT always makes it a GREEN partition. And then if I dont do that and leave it unallocated(have not tried it with the green partition)then it always makes XP G drive and wants to install everything in C drive which turns out to be the 100MB partition created from installing Win7. How to get it to be C drive when in both OSes?

 

[whs]

You absolutely do not want to have XP on an SSD. XP does not support Trim and you will lose a lot of the SSD performance advantage if you let XP manipulate the SSD. Put it on a spinning disk (disconnect the SSD during the installation) and switch between the 2 systems with the bootorder of the BIOS. But do not let XP near the SSD.

But if you insist to do that odd configuration, post a picture of Disk Management and I will see whether I can figure out what your problem is. Not sure what you mean by "Green" partition. Are you talking about free space or a dynamic partition. If it is the latter, you are in real trouble.