I am sure that this has been asked hundreds of times but i have been searching the web with not much luck. I found some things and tried them with no luck. I tried www.negine.de/index.jsp?pageid=4176 multiple times over the course of 3 days. My problem is that i have some older games that won't work on Vista Ultimate 64 bit SP1 Os but will work with XP. I do not have the room in my case for another hard drive because i have 3 in it now running a raid 5 for vista. Something easy would be better, Any ideas or help is greatly appreaciated. Thanks
Seeing that this drive is going to be external you should really look into using a eSATA external drive, for multiple reasons. For one bootup times over a USB or FireWire connection would be absymal. Secondly if using a eSATA external drive and a eSATA passthrough bracket the computer would pick up the drive as if it was simply connected inside the case to one of its SATA ports. Other than that I believe if you format the drive you would have to unhook the other drive with Vista on it every time you went to boot Vista. This would be due to the conflicting master boot record on each drive, essentially each drive would tell the BIOS to boot it and not the other drive.
PROBLEM!!!! windows xp will not install via a firewire or usb drive without modification to the windows xp cd there are 2 usb patches that fix this issue and a firewire patch but you have to find them and then you have to download nlite and make a new windows cd using nlite
That is true but a USB install would also be mind numbingly slow. And since windows is essentially tied to one PC, why not install the HD in the PC and then isntall windows (it will be faster). And then put the HD in a external case.
PeaInAPod's suggestion i would go with being your pc should have usb bootdrive in bios & boot drive opotion in post screen. disable your raid drives temperarily & load xp onto a drive before removing to external enclosure.
Thanks for all the advice. I had the drive originaly hooked up using e-sata but did not have an encloser. So the drive was just sitting on my desk. I do not remember if i said this in my last post but for Vista Ult I am running a raid 5 set up with 3 500gig WD hard drives so room in my mid tower is tight. The whole reason i wanted to try this is that i have alot of games and some don't want to work right even in compat mode in vista 64 os. I did get lucky though and was able to squeeze 1 of my 2 120 gig seagate sata 1.5 hdd in under my floppy. I cut my hand 2 times and it took about an hour but i got it in. So all is good now. Afterdawn rocks. And thanks again all.
