dual boot one c drive sata e drive ide

Ok here is my question. Im not a tech guy so I dont want to do this if its not going to work. My main C drive is a Sata drive and My E drive is an IDE drive. I wanted to load Vista on the E drive and once all is said and done be able to start the computer and have a choice of which OS I boot up to each time. For I may not want to boot to Vista all the time or XP Pro all the time. If I load Vista on the IDE drive will my computer still work fine. Will i say be able to boot to vista on my E drive and see my other drive that has XP Pro and all my files on it. Or will I have to go through a big ol process to make this all work. I am trying all of MS betas and have the Office 2007 beta, office live beta and love them both and would really like to try the VIsta Beta as well. But not if its going to mess up my whole system and I wont have a choice which OS to boot to or if it will just give me a black screen becuase if it does then I have no way of coming back here for help. Your help and input is much appreciated in advance.
matthew

Ok here is my question. Im not a tech guy so I dont want to do this if its not going to work. My main C drive is a Sata drive and My E drive is an IDE drive. I wanted to load Vista on the E drive and once all is said and done be able to start the computer and have a choice of which OS I boot up to each time. For I may not want to boot to Vista all the time or XP Pro all the time. If I load Vista on the IDE drive will my computer still work fine. Will i say be able to boot to vista on my E drive and see my other drive that has XP Pro and all my files on it. Or will I have to go through a big ol process to make this all work. I am trying all of MS betas and have the Office 2007 beta, office live beta and love them both and would really like to try the VIsta Beta as well. But not if its going to mess up my whole system and I wont have a choice which OS to boot to or if it will just give me a black screen becuase if it does then I have no way of coming back here for help. Your help and input is much appreciated in advance.
matthew

Who is the Windows Vista BETA 2 for?
IT Professionals, Developers, Enthusiast, people who like to back up their data and try out new things and don't have issues just in case something goes wrong installing the software.
So, there is no guarantee that there might not be a problem. Yes, it should work just fine, just launch setup from within XP, when the Custom option becomes available, click it and select the partition you dedicated for Vista. The Windows Vista boot manager will take over, your XP install will be located under the Earlier Versions of Windows boot entry.
http://windowsconnected.com/blogs/andre/archive/2006/06/08/3002.aspx -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"mstout2001" wrote in message

Ok here is my question. Im not a tech guy so I dont want to do this if its not going to work. My main C drive is a Sata drive and My E drive is an IDE drive. I wanted to load Vista on the E drive and once all is said and done be able to start the computer and have a choice of which OS I boot up to each time. For I may not want to boot to Vista all the time or XP Pro all the time. If I load Vista on the IDE drive will my computer still work fine. Will i say be able to boot to vista on my E drive and see my other drive that has XP Pro and all my files on it. Or will I have to go through a big ol process to make this all work. I am trying all of MS betas and have the Office 2007 beta, office live beta and love them both and would really like to try the VIsta Beta as well. But not if its going to mess up my whole system and I wont have a choice which OS to boot to or if it will just give me a black screen becuase if it does then I have no way of coming back here for help. Your help and input is much appreciated in advance.
matthew

It is for me and my home computer. I have the Extra drive that has some files but I dont mind losing them. My C drive is the main drive with win xp pro the other drive used to have xp pro but I messed it up so when I got this newer computer I just took the drive out and installed it on the IDE cable which allowed me to access the files on it. But there is nothing left that I dont mind losing. I just dont want to have a problem or have to switch this cable and that cable. I just want when the computer starts to have a choice boot to Vista or XP Pro. I dont know whether its a big ordeal or not becuase the Main drive is a Sata and the other is a IDE. My current boot drive of course is the Sata Drive.
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:

Who is the Windows Vista BETA 2 for?
IT Professionals, Developers, Enthusiast, people who like to back up their data and try out new things and don't have issues just in case something goes wrong installing the software.
So, there is no guarantee that there might not be a problem. Yes, it should work just fine, just launch setup from within XP, when the Custom option becomes available, click it and select the partition you dedicated for Vista. The Windows Vista boot manager will take over, your XP install will be located under the Earlier Versions of Windows boot entry.
http://windowsconnected.com/blogs/andre/archive/2006/06/08/3002.aspx -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"mstout2001" wrote in message Ok here is my question. Im not a tech guy so I dont want to do this if its not going to work. My main C drive is a Sata drive and My E drive is an IDE drive. I wanted to load Vista on the E drive and once all is said and done be able to start the computer and have a choice of which OS I boot up to each time. For I may not want to boot to Vista all the time or XP Pro all the time. If I load Vista on the IDE drive will my computer still work fine. Will i say be able to boot to vista on my E drive and see my other drive that has XP Pro and all my files on it. Or will I have to go through a big ol process to make this all work. I am trying all of MS betas and have the Office 2007 beta, office live beta and love them both and would really like to try the VIsta Beta as well. But not if its going to mess up my whole system and I wont have a choice which OS to boot to or if it will just give me a black screen becuase if it does then I have no way of coming back here for help. Your help and input is much appreciated in advance.
matthew

Ok here is my question. Im not a tech guy so I dont want to do this if its not going to work. My main C drive is a Sata drive and My E drive is an IDE drive. I wanted to load Vista on the E drive and once all is said and done be able to start the computer and have a choice of which OS I boot up to each time. For I may not want to boot to Vista all the time or XP Pro all the time. If I load Vista on the IDE drive will my computer still work fine. Will i say be able to boot to vista on my E drive and see my other drive that has XP Pro and all my files on it. Or will I have to go through a big ol process to make this all work. I am trying all of MS betas and have the Office 2007 beta, office live beta and love them both and would really like to try the VIsta Beta as well. But not if its going to mess up my whole system and I wont have a choice which OS to boot to or if it will just give me a black screen becuase if it does then I have no way of coming back here for help. Your help and input is much appreciated in advance.
matthew