I've read up on this, but would appreciate other opinions on my plans for my new PC. My current (and old) PC runs 32-bit XP.I plan to install 64-bit Windows 7 on my main hard drive and use a second physical hard drive (10,000 Raptor hard drive) to install 64-bit XP. The XP drive would be used just for FS9 and any other programs/games that have issues with Windows 7.I know about partitioning a single drive into two dual boots, but was wondering if it's more feasible to use two physical hard drives to set up a dual boot system like I plan to.Any replies are greatly appreciated.

I've read up on this, but would appreciate other opinions on my plans for my new PC. My current (and old) PC runs 32-bit XP.I plan to install 64-bit Windows 7 on my main hard drive and use a second physical hard drive (10,000 Raptor hard drive) to install 64-bit XP. The XP drive would be used just for FS9 and any other programs/games that have issues with Windows 7.I know about partitioning a single drive into two dual boots, but was wondering if it's more feasible to use two physical hard drives to set up a dual boot system like I plan to.Any replies are greatly appreciated.

I think it's much better to use two physical drives - they're so cheap these days. I've been dual booting W7/64 RTM and xp64 for over a month now with no issues - glad I did it this way. Boot manager loads and you choose which flavor you fancy.

Thanks for the reply, irocx.I was also wondering if I should go to a Raptor 10,000 rpm hard drive for the XP part with FS9 and FSX or just stick with an ordinary 7200 rpm hard drives.Does anyone have a 10,000 rpm hard drive and does it make a difference in reducing the little stutters that FS9 and FSX has when loading files from the hard drive?Thanks!

Thanks for the reply, irocx.I was also wondering if I should go to a Raptor 10,000 rpm hard drive for the XP part with FS9 and FSX or just stick with an ordinary 7200 rpm hard drives.Does anyone have a 10,000 rpm hard drive and does it make a difference in reducing the little stutters that FS9 and FSX has when loading files from the hard drive?Thanks!

I have a similar setupm only with 4 drives, 2 are on XP (FS9 in one of them), and a new drive just for W7 and FSX, installed W7 this past weekend, and now it boots up only in W7 and I can't figure out how to get the Boot chice to pick XP or W7, if you get any good info on this, please forward to me at [email protected]...........

I have a similar setupm only with 4 drives, 2 are on XP (FS9 in one of them), and a new drive just for W7 and FSX, installed W7 this past weekend, and now it boots up only in W7 and I can't figure out how to get the Boot chice to pick XP or W7, if you get any good info on this, please forward to me at [email protected]...........

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Thanks for the reply, irocx.I was also wondering if I should go to a Raptor 10,000 rpm hard drive for the XP part with FS9 and FSX or just stick with an ordinary 7200 rpm hard drives.Does anyone have a 10,000 rpm hard drive and does it make a difference in reducing the little stutters that FS9 and FSX has when loading files from the hard drive?Thanks!

I am not very knowledgeable with respect to dual boots and partitioning of drives, but I can tell you this: you will get the MOST performance out of FSX and your Vraptor if you run FSX exclusively on the Vrap drive. Nick N has posted extensively on this topic and explains that for the best FSX performance from your drive, you should run FSX on its own drive (and a Vrap is the faster than any of the 7200 rpm drives.)