Dual boot, give me the lowdown

[daav]

My DAW is also my normal comp, which is also my music/photo/ server and this nonsense has to end. One thing that really messes me up is when the wife is listening to tunes through one of the machines in the rest of the house, my performance recording and playing music really drags. I need to reboot before each session, etc. The machine is robust enough and i am comp tech of sorts in another life, and it is configured for audio, so i am pretty sure the problem is likely jsut the proliferation of programs installed form daily use, a large hird drive that doesn;t get defragged often enough etc.

So i now have another drive (250 GB SATA). I want to make my system dual boot, so my current drive and configuration wil be there for internet use, media storage, etc, and the SATA drive will be my audio workstation, stripped down, jsut for recording, plug ins, VST instruments etc.

Any reccomendations, tips/tricks and what software do you use for this?
Thanks,
Daav

 

[daav]

bump, c';mom someone must have a system set to dualboot.

 

[fraserhutch]

bump, c';mom someone must have a system set to dualboot.

No software necessary - if you just reinstall Windows XP, it will prompt you for a partition to install to. At that point, just pick a parition on the new SATA drive. It will install and configure a boot manager for you, IIRC.

My dual boots all boot Windows and some flavour of Linux, so I use linux bootmanagers.

 

[Hard2Hear]

A dual boot is NOT going to fix that problem. You'll either have no sharing when youre in the other boot or if you do allow sharing you'll just encounter the same problems. Either way, it will take reboots to make it work for different tasks.

So you can do it, but while its loaded into your daw, you won't be able to share files.