I have two hard drives. My master only has 5gb left of free space. I am planning on getting vista (spare me your vista lecture), and I want to dual boot. Can I install a upgrade copy of vista on my secondary drive when xp is on my primary drive? TIA

You can dual boot any OS so long as they're placed on seperate partitions.

By the way, for all the Vista die-hards, the product is supposed to be discontinued in 2009, due to the next Windows release. This is not a joke. Vista is actually a "fill-in" sort of like Windows ME.

Anyhow, yes, you can dual boot any OS, of any flavour. Just be sure to install on a clean partition.

Wow. I didn't know it was a fill-in. I'm not going to wait until 2009 to get thee next release. I want vista. It's nice to know I can put an upgrade copy of vista on another drive. How does vista know I have xp for the upgrade copy?

do you have a source of that info?

Can I install an UPGRADE copy of windows vista on my secondary drive with xp on my primary? Will vista be able to recognize that I have xp if it's on another drive? I'll attach a screen shot to show you why I am concerned. TIA

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Would you be able to save that screenshot as a jpg? I don't have any software that'll read Photoshop files

And yes, Vista should recognize your XP install. If not, you just need to pop your XP disk in during installation, as with all previous versions.

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Okay Ash, I have the picture up in jpeg. What worries me is that it says "Although you cannot upgrade, you can install Windows Vista on disk drives: E:" This sounds like I can't use an upgrade copy.

What they mean is that you cannot upgrade your current version of XP to Vista and keep all of the files intact - you can only do a fresh install.

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OK, I'm getting REALLY confused!!! I've seen places that say I can't use the upgrade copy of vista to do a dual boot on my secondary drive. Is this true? On the web I've been getting conflicting answers. Can't vista just see that I have xp on my primary drive and install on my secondary, or is vista BLIND? I've also seen a work-around that call for installing an upgrade on a blank drive and doing the 30-day trial. And then installing vista inside of that. Is this just for a brand new drive in a new computer without xp, or would I have to do this on my secondary drive to use an upgrade copy when I have xp on my primary drive. TIA for any information you give me. The closer I come to getting the money for vista, the more stressed out I become over these questions. I would like some one to explain the way to dual boot with xp on my primary and a vista UPGRADE on my secondary. If this is not possible please tell me.