Can XP be run from an alternate HD on a Vista PC?


For reasons that I have yet to determine, my current computer is killing
motherboards. I am assuming it is a virus so my friend is going to do a
virus scan from his MAC to make sure my hard drive is clean.

I decided to order a new HP (my current computer was home-built with
the assistance from an IT savvy friend). To be more specific, it's
model M8430F from best buy.

Now for my question: Assuming my hard drive is not the root cause for
the motherboard failure, it has XP and some 3D design programs that I
use on it. I'm a little nervous about using Vista on the new computer
to run these programs. Therefore I was wondering if I can install my
current hard drive (SATA) into my new computer (HP M8430F) which is
Vista based.

I'm not 100% computer naïve? although it makes sense in my head that I
should be able to boot from either hard drive I understand that there's
a lot that I DON?T understand and therefore am posting here.

In short:
New computer with Vista
Hard drive from old computer with XP
= Can I install XP hard drive and choose to boot from it when I want to
use specific programs currently installed on it?
Thanks!


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rena03sb
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