dual boot question

Ok everyone. I know everyone is tired of hearing about this dual boot situation but here goes anyway. I have 2 hard drives, XP is my primary on C. I want to install Vista 5384.4 on my second hard drive H and use it for dual boot. Now when I install Vista, will it recognize that I have more that one hard drive and then ask me which drive I want to install it on? Also, will the boot process change and will Vista process take over XP? I sure would appricate any help anyone can give me. If you want to anyone can email me at mike.stallcup@hotmail.com with a clear way to do this. Thanks again everyone!

Yes, it will recognize your secondary drive, launch the setup program for Vista from within XP, when Custom Option is made available, click it and select the drive you dedicated for Vista. Vista will create a new boot manager which take over, and your XP install will be located under the Earlier version of Windows boot entry. -- -- 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
"Mike" wrote in message

Ok everyone. I know everyone is tired of hearing about this dual boot situation but here goes anyway. I have 2 hard drives, XP is my primary on C. I want to install Vista 5384.4 on my second hard drive H and use it for dual boot. Now when I install Vista, will it recognize that I have more that one hard drive and then ask me which drive I want to install it on? Also, will the boot process change and will Vista process take over XP? I sure would appricate any help anyone can give me. If you want to anyone can email me at mike.stallcup@hotmail.com with a clear way to do this. Thanks again everyone!

Well I am stating to get done with my download I only have a 386 connection. So if I want to dual boot with Vista 64 and XP 64 all I have to do is do a custom setup while in XP and I should have a good duel boot.
I just want to make sure I can go back to XP64 with out a issue because from what I have read I will not be able to print off my networked HP printer Photosmart 2610 because of drivers. Please someone let me know if I am wrong on this.
Thanks,
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote in message

Yes, it will recognize your secondary drive, launch the setup program for Vista from within XP, when Custom Option is made available, click it and select the drive you dedicated for Vista. Vista will create a new boot manager which take over, and your XP install will be located under the Earlier version of Windows boot entry. -- -- 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
"Mike" wrote in message Ok everyone. I know everyone is tired of hearing about this dual boot situation but here goes anyway. I have 2 hard drives, XP is my primary on C. I want to install Vista 5384.4 on my second hard drive H and use it for dual boot. Now when I install Vista, will it recognize that I have more that one hard drive and then ask me which drive I want to install it on? Also, will the boot process change and will Vista process take over XP? I sure would appricate any help anyone can give me. If you want to anyone can email me at mike.stallcup@hotmail.com with a clear way to do this. Thanks again everyone!