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Jester

k, thanks.

ih8bills · 02:37 AM

With the right Boot Manager --you can have as many partitions as you want...(up to 200 are claimed)
Boot Manager, Partition Manager, and Drive Image Utility - BootIt Next Generation

However... this gets a little tricky. You need to read quite a bit about how partitions... and a boot manager work.
maybe file this info away for future experiments... not a first attempt.
TeraByte :: Support :: BootIt Next Generation :: Tutorials

Jester

I think I'm just going to use two OS's, Vista and XP, but I won't be duel-booting for a while because I haven't bought Vista yet. I'm waiting until XP has played its self out the I'm forced to get Vista. Until that time I'm just going to prepare my computer for duel-booting.
Do you think I could have two partitions on my main drive, one for Vista and one for XP? Then on my 2nd drive have 3 partitions: one for games and programs in XP another for Vista, and a third for Music and Pictures for both OS's? Would that work? Just brainstorming here, thought I'd ask.

Well I put everything together and flipped the switch last night. It booted and installed windows without a problem. Thats a relief!

ih8bills

Originally Posted by Jester

I think I'm just going to use two OS's, Vista and XP, but I won't be duel-booting for a while because I haven't bought Vista yet. I'm waiting until XP has played its self out the I'm forced to get Vista. Until that time I'm just going to prepare my computer for duel-booting.
Do you think I could have two partitions on my main drive, one for Vista and one for XP? Then on my 2nd drive have 3 partitions: one for games and programs in XP another for Vista, and a third for Music and Pictures for both OS's? Would that work? Just brainstorming here, thought I'd ask.

Well I put everything together and flipped the switch last night. It booted and installed windows without a problem. Thats a relief!

It should work... but as I said read all you can find on partition-setup before you experiment.
Especially if you use Boot-It NG-- it's a great program-- don't get me wrong-- but it works outside the OS. Once you learn it's "ins and outs" you should be able to have multiple partitons... move them around... back them up-- whatever.
I've used it to save an installation that I could not even boot from CD--so Windows Setup could not load... used it on the floppy-drive... and fixed the Master Boot Record.

Jester

I have created two partitions on HHD #1 for XP and Vista. And have made three partitions on HDD #2, one for XP programs, Pictures, and Vista programs. I installed Photoshop on the "pictures" partition and it ran fine, as did BF2. so far so good.

However, I don't have Vista installed yet. Thanks for all your advice.

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