Multi-boot - worth keeping - config ?
- From: "- Bobb -" <bobb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 07:07:50 -0400
Currently 2 disk drives , 1 DVD, 2 CDRW's, AMD Athlon 2ghz ,single CPU, 1gb mem. on my Microsoft box: X64 and Vista rarely used now and thinking of simply Multibooting 2000/XP. What do you think ? Worth doing this to keep my OS options open ? Or just pull the X64/Vista drive and use the 300gb for MY stuff - not OS'es. Not crazy about Maxtor drive as my primary so just bought a Seagate drive and I'm looking at reconfig.
In BIOS I currently have boot order set to IDE then SATA
Drive1 - Western Digital IDE has 5 partitions:
X64, XP ( basic/test install only), Vista32 Beta ,Vista64 Beta, Temp
Drive 2 = Maxtor SATA currently 3 partitions:
2 are XP bootable partititions ( my old and current ) and one is my Archive area. ( MY Stuff)
That way I can just toggle BIOS boot order - or remove the X64 drive - and all works OK. SATA alone boots to XP fine.
For getting W2k to boot - what's the EASIEST way to achieve that ? Overwrite the old XP partition on drive 2 and if pointed to w2k partition at boot time, XP loader would just recognize it and continue ?
Drive 3 = new 300gb Seagate SATA
Looking at reconfig: how would you organize ?
All OS'es on new/old SATA drive ?
I was thinking of:
1. ghosting the IDE to new SATA ( so to not reinstall OS'es)
2. Then replace xp test partition with image of my current / daily XP partition.
3. Maybe ... then replace TEMP partition with Win2000.
Result: Then I have all OS'es on the newest drive
Win 2000, xp,x64,vista32/64 (yeah Beta -I'll delete another time)
and then
4. use a separate disk for just my Archive/Library area. (new drive)
I have only 4 power connections in the 500w supply so would like just 2 disks ( I do have a few Y connectors in there now and rarely use the CD/DVDs)
[ Currently I boot to IDE disk where I choose Vista or X64 or XP
If XP, then my boot menu =
XP on SATA partitition 1 ( reinstalled when I bought the drive
last year)
or
XP on SATA partitition 2 ( an old ghosted/backup install )
or
XP Test on the IDE ]
Why Win 2000 ? I used to know W2000 really well and hated XP - realizing that I've forgotten the differences, I just want to 'not lose it' since some businesses are still running W2k. I currently have Win2000 on it's own drive but don't want to use an IDE port/power for it.
Thanks,
Bobb
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