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[kenzoo Profile]

Hi

At the moment i have functional Windows Xp Pro on my hardrive, i Want to move it to the D-drive because the harddrive i am using as "C" is needed for Raid in Vista.

I don't have the Vista install at the moment, I want to make the copy work in Windows Xp Pro envioment.

How do i get a dual boot for Windows Xp Pro on the "D" and a Windows Xp Pro on "C" so I can se it

[kd1966 Profile YIM]

Hi and welcome to PROnetworks! Glad to have you here; looks like you want quite a bit there....... It will be easier for you to do the XP setup first, before installing Vista, so keep that in mind. For "MOVING" XP to another drive, be careful with that, as the boot.ini file points to where XP 'Logically' is located, so if you plan to image your current XP setup, be aware of the Boot.ini issue, as you'll likely have to edit this file to properly point to your new XP location. After you get a successful XP setup, it's just a matter of preparing for Vista, and in your case, you'll need to get SATA/RAID drivers just in case Vista does not have them included. Enjoy the site!

[kenzoo Profile]

Hi!

yes i know it

[NT50 Profile]

What you can do is:
1. Ghost your XP PRO
2. Format drives
3. Start a new Windows XP Pro setup and install on NON Raid drive. Do not activate. Setup your RAID Drives as D: and setup your RAID. Format the RAID with XP Pro
4. Once you have this accomplish then run Ghost and restore you XP Pro to that drive you just setup Pro on. This will now be your C: drive.
5. Boot to Vista DVD and run advanced setup to install Vista on your RAID drives. Once accomplished you will then be able to dual boot and Vista will rename the drives as C:(Vista) and D:(XP Pro).

If you boot into XP PRo, XP will see the XP drive as C: and Vista as D:
If you boot into Vista, Vista will see the Vista drive as C: and XP as D:
Do NOT confuse the drive letters. Just let the OS handle the drive letters.

Beware. If you are running RAID 0, I am not sure how Ghost will handle this imaging procedure.

I hope you understand what can be accomplished.

[kd1966 Profile YIM]

I've used GhostCast server and it was set up on an XP on RAID-1........ the images weren't affected by any of the RAID to my knowledge, as we pulled the images off the RAID array (Just a single partition) and loaded them onto varying HDD sizes (Notebooks and laptops)

[kenzoo Profile]

Hi!

Thanks for the answer, good to bee member here, fast answer and it works.

Thanks again.

Kenzoo Denmark

[NT50 Profile]

Hi!

Thanks for the answer, good to bee member here, fast answer and it works.

Thanks again.

Kenzoo Denmark

Works??? Did you get it working. How did you get it working?

[kenzoo Profile]

Hi!

Its not good, I made the copy, and follow the advise but i thougt that i shut set op raid in Windows for the praktis but i set it up the way you sad Windows Xp Pro is on the C drive and Raid on D drive but it

[NT50 Profile]

This is fun

Thank goodness for good humor

At least you still have your goo ghost image of XP .

Are you wanting RAID 0 or RAID 1 for your Vista drive.

How many drives do you have and let us know what kind etc etc etc.

let me know, I will get back tomorrow...........

[kenzoo Profile]

Hi!

Here is my computer:

AMD Athlon (tm) 4200 64x 2 Dual 64 Bit
Asus A8N32- SLI- Deluxe
OCZ Ram 500 Pc 4000 4X512 Dural
OCZ power supply 520W
Geforce 7800GTX
SB Audigy 2 ZS
Weston Digital Raptor 1 x 74Gb (Windows Xp Pro) 32 Bit. (C)
Weston Digital Raptor 2 x 150Gb (windows Vista Ultimate) 64bit. (D)
Pioneer DVD Rom 120 S (H)
NEC DVD RW ND 3520 AW (I)

This is how it looks on (C) drive at the moment, its running fast,
but Windows XP Pr DRive raid (D) can