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    Dual OS & Hard drive question

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by kiltstain, Jun 22, 2008.

  1. kiltstain

    kiltstain Newbie

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    I'm planning on buying a laptop with 2 hard drives. What I would like to do with this laptop is have Vista 64bit & XP 32bit. Is this possible? If so should I get the hard drives with no RAID config or with RAID 0? BTW it has 4gigs of memory. Thank you in advance for you help.
     
    kiltstain, Jun 22, 2008
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  2. Hep!

    Hep! sees beauty in everything

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    You can dual boot on a single hard drive, so I would personally get the RAID and just dual boot on that.
    You will have to slipstream the RAID drivers into your XP CD though.
     
    Hep!, Jun 22, 2008
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  3. swarmer

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    Yeah.

    To have one OS on each drive, you'd select "No RAID".

    However, you'll get better performance if you use RAID 0 with each of the OSes spread across both drives. That's because two hard drives working together can read and write data twice as fast.

    I've never used RAID so I'm not really the expert, but... maybe someone else can provide some more detail on how to get it all set up right.
     
    swarmer, Jun 22, 2008
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  4. kiltstain

    kiltstain Newbie

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    Yea I understand how RAID works and its advantages but I've never worked with a 64bit OS so I wasnt sure if it could be on the same drive as another 32bit OS
     
    kiltstain, Jun 22, 2008
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  5. swarmer

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    Well, as always, you need a different partition for each OS... but other than that, it doesn't care.
     
    swarmer, Jun 22, 2008
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  6. Silas Awaketh

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    I'm interested in something like this as well. Will Software RAID work with a 7200rpm drive and a 5400rpm drive?
     
    Silas Awaketh, Jun 22, 2008
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  7. The_Observer

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    For RAID the drives must be identical.
     
    The_Observer, Jun 22, 2008
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