hdd boot sequence

[mercmanuk]

ive xp pro on a 500gb sata hdd which i want to keep.
ive just loaded vista onto a second 500gb sata hdd.
my motherboard has 6 sata connections.
my idea was to connect the 2 hdd's and when i boot the system and press f8 it will give me the option to run either operating system.
this does not happen it only shows the operating system that is connected to sata port 1.
what am i doing wrong or do both operating systems need to be installed on the same hdd.

cheers all

 

[The G.F.P]

why do you want 2 operating systems

is it so you can have 2 seperate peoples stuff on 1 pc?

ive just got a new pc and spent a week sorting it out as ive got 9 hard drives and the new pc only had 2 sata power leads that would reach the HDD bays

 

[markmifsud]

theres two ways to do this, following on from how you have started, you will need to see if your bios will support booting from the other sata port.

The reason it will boot and see just the one OS is that you have 2 seperate installation HD, so it finds the OS on sata1 and the boot sector shows just the single install. The correct way to do this would be to have your normal HD as the boot hd, install vista and select to keep existing OS, and choose the 2nd hd as the main drive for vista. Now, when you boot the OS it will display both systems, and let you choose what one to boot

 

[jpskiller]

also most motherboards support pressing f12 to slect boot device, where you can select the other hdd to boot from

 

[The G.F.P]

im sure i read there was a prog to do that

ive used XP home untill last week as i hated vista the first time i used it but now with the new pc im using vista and like it

when 98 came out i started using 95

when xp came out i started using 98

then xp when vista came out

and now seven is almost out and im finally on vista

on dribbling on about jibberish now

 

[whitenemesis]

Scrap that idea and get Vitual PC, free download from MS. You then have the host OS (Vista) and run as many vitual different OSs within that. Each is totally independant, great for testing, messing. A crash wont bring down the Host or other VPCs

 

[The G.F.P]

that would work

still would like to know why the OP wants a dual boot system / 2 operating systems

 

[whitenemesis]

I'm running 3 , some progs wont run on Vista, also trialing WIN7

 

[mercmanuk]

i need xp as i use several progs that will not run with vista

 

[whitenemesis]

i need xp as i use several progs that will not run with vista

Virtual PC is the answer then

 

[The G.F.P]

i love XP and worried that some of my progs would not run on vista but so far they all do

DVD shrink
convertxtodvd
nero
vuze
isobuster
ccleaner

but all good so far

 

[mercmanuk]

Virtual pc the way to go,cracking programme

 

[HughJarse]

Virtual pc the way to go,cracking programme

Have you also tried right clicking on the software you want to run and setting the compatibility mode to Xp?