I have sucessfully dual booted 3 different systems without any real issue at all while practicing.
Win 7 & Fedora 12 - Separate drives
Vista & Fedora 12 - 1 drive Vista, 2nd drive 2 partitions, NTFS and Fedora booting from 2nd partition on 2nd drive
Win 7 & Ubuntu 9.10 - Separate drives.
Even though I got the Vista / F12 working on 1 drive I really like having the OS on separate drives so I would like to setup a triple boot with 3 separate drives.
The new system:
The system I am working on now is XP Pro that has my critical work on it but I have 2 other drives that will hold Win 7 and Ubuntu 9.10. Eventually I will get rid of XP Pro but I just cannot migrate off of it yet.
I have a lot of flexibility on the order of drives and controllers that they are on so I was considering making the XP drive which is currently the boot drive a Slave. Next install Win 7 on a primary controller as the new boot drive then installing Ubuntu on another slave drive on another controller. Sounds confusing but it looks like this:
1. Primary boot Win 7 (run EasyBCD here)
2. Slave XP (previous boot drive)
3. Ubuntu as either a slave or primary drive on another controller.
My biggest question is will XP be OK if I just put it on another controller when it was previous boot drive? Will this work or is there a better order (leave XP as boot?)
Sorry for the long post but I am sure you guys will like the challenge :??
Any advice or suggestions appreciated. Thanks!
Win 7 & Fedora 12 - Separate drives
Vista & Fedora 12 - 1 drive Vista, 2nd drive 2 partitions, NTFS and Fedora booting from 2nd partition on 2nd drive
Win 7 & Ubuntu 9.10 - Separate drives.
Even though I got the Vista / F12 working on 1 drive I really like having the OS on separate drives so I would like to setup a triple boot with 3 separate drives.
The new system:
The system I am working on now is XP Pro that has my critical work on it but I have 2 other drives that will hold Win 7 and Ubuntu 9.10. Eventually I will get rid of XP Pro but I just cannot migrate off of it yet.
I have a lot of flexibility on the order of drives and controllers that they are on so I was considering making the XP drive which is currently the boot drive a Slave. Next install Win 7 on a primary controller as the new boot drive then installing Ubuntu on another slave drive on another controller. Sounds confusing but it looks like this:
1. Primary boot Win 7 (run EasyBCD here)
2. Slave XP (previous boot drive)
3. Ubuntu as either a slave or primary drive on another controller.
My biggest question is will XP be OK if I just put it on another controller when it was previous boot drive? Will this work or is there a better order (leave XP as boot?)
Sorry for the long post but I am sure you guys will like the challenge :??
Any advice or suggestions appreciated. Thanks!