Dualboot with Longhorn?

[joshduffus]

I've got 4 harddrives on my system 2 are RAID and contain all my music and video. The main drive (C houses applications on Windows XP Pro. However D: is empty. Is it possible to install a newly acquired Longhorn OS on D:? And still keep everything running C:? Will just installing it on D: allow me to dualboot? I'd like to keep the stability of XP, but give Longhorn a test drive.

Thanks!

 

[grunjee]

== Edit ==
Nevermind, sorry can't help ya, here's a bump.

 

[spyordie007]

Yes, you can dual-boot longhorn and windows XP. Just keep in mind that the bootloader on your C drive will be updated by the longhorn installer (and needs to be for longhorn to boot).

 

[joshduffus]

Here's the good news. I got the dualboot working perfectly. And I'm able to use Longhorn pretty well. Are there any drivers I can use for it...premlinary, preview drivers perhaps? Any ideas? Has anyone experimented with this?

 

[XBoxLPU]

IMO VMWare offers a much better solution if you want to test out a beta OS

 

[spyordie007]

Originally posted by: joshduffus
Here's the good news. I got the dualboot working perfectly. And I'm able to use Longhorn pretty well. Are there any drivers I can use for it...premlinary, preview drivers perhaps? Any ideas? Has anyone experimented with this?

Typically I've found that the XP drivers will work for most pieces of hardware.

 

[GT4]

vid driver xp works
audio driver xp works
nic driver xp works
almost forget that its longhorn and not xp with a theme

 

[spyordie007]

almost forget that its longhorn and not xp with a theme

Most NT4 drivers work under server 2003; does this make server 2003 "just a theme"?

 

[keeleysam]

Originally posted by: spyordie007

almost forget that its longhorn and not xp with a theme

Most NT4 drivers work under server 2003; does this make server 2003 "just a theme"?

No it dosent, you troll.

 

[joshduffus]

I'll give my drivers a shot when I get home. I've got an Audigy 2, and 6800 Ultra...I'm hoping they fire up.