turning point in xp and vista together on 2 hard drives

How can I add my old hard drive to my new vista pc.
He has xp on it

Hi mikbre72,

You will first need to physically install the drive in your new pc vista case, connect the power and data cables. However, before that you need to set the jumpers on your old hard drive to a 'slave' or self select (glance at the top of your hard drive to see which jumper settings are available) (see: http://www.ehow.com/video_6030_install-second-hard.html and http://www.helpwithpcs.com/upgrading/install-hard-drive.htm .)

Once you have installed the reader go to the start menu and click computer to verify that Windows can see the hard drive that you have just installed. Also check that there is a drive letter, for example D, E, F etc. If it is not then go to control panel and click the administrative tools. Once in administrative tools, click on the ' computer management option and then click on the "disk management" is If you then right click your drive containing XP, you'll see a menu drop-down. Look for the option to change the drive letters, and then to assign a drive letter to the drive.

Now even if your drive has been installed you still not be able to start XP. This is because the details of your XP disk have not been added to the boot record (BCDEdit). To do this, you have two options. Or, insert your Windows Vista DVD into your DVD drive, reboot your PC and start the Vista installation. (see this link to my website: http://www.winuser.co.uk/windows_vista_faq/32_install_windows_vista.html ) When you reach step 9 in my Windows Vista installation guide illustarted, click on the 'open system recovery tools' and do a startup repair. This should locate your second drive and add it to the boot menu.

A second option is to download EasyBCD (http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1 ) installation of this application and run it. Once running open registrations to add/remove and manually add your XP disk to the boot menu. See this link for more information on adding an entry: http://neosmart.net/gallery/v/neosmart/EasyBCD/1_70/Add-Remove+Entries+-+Windows.png.html

When you restart you should be offered also a menu that lets you choose between Vista and XP
John Barnett MVP: Windows XP Expert associated with: Windows Desktop Experience: Web: http://www.winuser.co.uk ; Web: http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org ; Web: http://vistasupport.mvps.org ;

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