Dual booting Vista and XP - on an XP box

[BoredTiger]

Is there a way to make my current box (which is an XP box) a dual boot, without having to wipe out my XP box?

I bought a new hard drive. I'm wondering is it possible to install the new drive and lay down Vista while keeping my XP drive as a slave and making the PC somehow Dual Boot?

I've never done a dual boot system before, so I was wondering if this is possible.


Thank you all in advance.

 

[digital_exhaust]

Just install your new drive, leave the XP drive connected, and boot from your Vista disc. Have Vista format your new drive, and install there. BE SURE TO FORMAT THE CORRECT DRIVE!!! If you select your XP drive by accident, your screwed, and it happens more often than you would think... hence the warning

Vista will install your bootloader for you and your good to go, reboot, select which OS you want to boot, and your done. Pretty simple, really....

 

[RangerXML]

This happend a few months ago, but I mend to format a thumb drive and ended up formating my backup HDD So yeah, double and triple check!