Ok, so I have a ASUS A8N-SLI Premium MB, and a old Westerndigital ATA HDD and everything runs great.
I just bought a Seagate SATA HHD and hooked that up and booted up. I didn't change my BIOs or anything yet and the seagate is showing up in the device manager and in BIOS so thats good. BIOS is 5.1.39. I tried booting from cd-rom but that didn't work. Also do I have to format the new HHD even though it has never been used before?
I have Windows XP SP2 on my old WD HD and I also have Windows Vista home premium 64 bit for the new Seagate.
From this point on I am at a loss at how to move forward. My goal is to have my old HD for storage and use XP for if I have gaming trouble on vista I can use my old xp HD to play it. All I want my new HD to do for now is to run vista and games. The problem is that when I boot up it goes straight to my XP and I don't get a chance to install vista on the other HD.
Less importantly is weather there is a way to switch from a HD running vista, to a different HD running XP without having to totally reboot?
Thanks in advance, you all have always been more then helpful.
I just bought a Seagate SATA HHD and hooked that up and booted up. I didn't change my BIOs or anything yet and the seagate is showing up in the device manager and in BIOS so thats good. BIOS is 5.1.39. I tried booting from cd-rom but that didn't work. Also do I have to format the new HHD even though it has never been used before?
I have Windows XP SP2 on my old WD HD and I also have Windows Vista home premium 64 bit for the new Seagate.
From this point on I am at a loss at how to move forward. My goal is to have my old HD for storage and use XP for if I have gaming trouble on vista I can use my old xp HD to play it. All I want my new HD to do for now is to run vista and games. The problem is that when I boot up it goes straight to my XP and I don't get a chance to install vista on the other HD.
Less importantly is weather there is a way to switch from a HD running vista, to a different HD running XP without having to totally reboot?
Thanks in advance, you all have always been more then helpful.