What I did was leave XP on my hard drive, and used a second hard drive for Windows 7Beta. I can go back and forth between the two, simply by plugging in whichever drive I want. I like the idea of keeping the os's seperated, in case of a crash or virus, one doesn't effect the other, and I can go back to XP in a minute, if I want to.
If you're going to do it that way then disconnect the main OS's drive before installing W7, then reconnect it after the install is complete.
Much easier to simply set the hd boot order in the BIOS to choose which OS boots, and you will have all your other files available
If you're going to do it that way then disconnect the main OS's drive before installing W7, then reconnect it after the install is complete.
Much easier to simply set the hd boot order in the BIOS to choose which OS boots, and you will have all your other files available
What I did was leave XP on my hard drive, and used a second hard drive for Windows 7Beta. I can go back and forth between the two, simply by plugging in whichever drive I want. I like the idea of keeping the os's seperated, in case of a crash or virus, one doesn't effect the other, and I can go back to XP in a minute, if I want to.