Good morning, fellow masters at Hard Forum.
I just built a new rig, as you can see below in my Sig, That is what I'm running.
The prior machine I had is still kicking around... After 2 years of the same XP Install (And it still working fast/well) I have endless amounts of customization and tweaking, And more importantly all my recording stuff (VST's, Mixing software, etc) all setup in a certain way that would take months to replicate.
The drive this is all sitting on is a Western Digital RaptorX 150gb, the new drive I have I am running Vista64 bit on /w a 65gb partition at the beginning of the drive. (To try, and to take advantage of my Quad Xeon... And pre-alpha test Minefield, etc etc.)....
I already tried ghosting the 150GB Raptor/XP Setup to Partition D 150GB on the 300gb Raptor Drive to no avail....
What happened was it overtook my Vista boot info, and tried to boot XP. Without much luck, I tried to run a XP repair install off a sp3-integrated disk --- It didn't find any XP Install information (Thus... No repair install.)...
I was thinking of Running Sysprep on the Old machine (there is a new SysPrep for SP3) but I'm not positive if it will be enough to carry it over to this new rig as the former machine was an ATI Chipset based Dual Core Opteron with an entirely different sata controller......
I know if You install XP or have it sitting on a drive prior to installing vista --- vista will find XP and set it up into its boot loader by default... This is not the case, and I do not feel like reinstalling vista because I have it setup perfectly the way I want it.... Is there any 3rd party tools that would make this job easier for me, I've tried searching around with not much luck, apparently its a "tricky" thing to do if you want to get XP recognized after a vista install..
I don't really care about recognized on the same partition, I just want it working.
Would it be best to run XP on an entirely separate drive, Switching boot device in the BIOS?
Best to run Sysprep sp3??
Or use some 3rd party tool to get Vista recognizing there is a XP install sitting on the same hard drive in another partition?
I need some advice and help on this, Please!
I know someone here will help.
And you will be greatly thanked!
I just built a new rig, as you can see below in my Sig, That is what I'm running.
The prior machine I had is still kicking around... After 2 years of the same XP Install (And it still working fast/well) I have endless amounts of customization and tweaking, And more importantly all my recording stuff (VST's, Mixing software, etc) all setup in a certain way that would take months to replicate.
The drive this is all sitting on is a Western Digital RaptorX 150gb, the new drive I have I am running Vista64 bit on /w a 65gb partition at the beginning of the drive. (To try, and to take advantage of my Quad Xeon... And pre-alpha test Minefield, etc etc.)....
I already tried ghosting the 150GB Raptor/XP Setup to Partition D 150GB on the 300gb Raptor Drive to no avail....
What happened was it overtook my Vista boot info, and tried to boot XP. Without much luck, I tried to run a XP repair install off a sp3-integrated disk --- It didn't find any XP Install information (Thus... No repair install.)...
I was thinking of Running Sysprep on the Old machine (there is a new SysPrep for SP3) but I'm not positive if it will be enough to carry it over to this new rig as the former machine was an ATI Chipset based Dual Core Opteron with an entirely different sata controller......
I know if You install XP or have it sitting on a drive prior to installing vista --- vista will find XP and set it up into its boot loader by default... This is not the case, and I do not feel like reinstalling vista because I have it setup perfectly the way I want it.... Is there any 3rd party tools that would make this job easier for me, I've tried searching around with not much luck, apparently its a "tricky" thing to do if you want to get XP recognized after a vista install..
I don't really care about recognized on the same partition, I just want it working.
Would it be best to run XP on an entirely separate drive, Switching boot device in the BIOS?
Best to run Sysprep sp3??
Or use some 3rd party tool to get Vista recognizing there is a XP install sitting on the same hard drive in another partition?
I need some advice and help on this, Please!
I know someone here will help.
And you will be greatly thanked!