Hi Rick . Thanks for replying.

If I get a USB drive, would this work.
How would I GHost my exisitng Drive to the Usb Drive
If all fails, How would I boot back from the USB drive ?
If I do manage to boot from the USB drive (And say its called G:), would all the original software not be defaulting to Drive C: ?
Regards,
Gerard



>>Hi.
>>I have an old PC (still fast and no problems with it) has XP
>>I want to upgrade it to Windows 8 but keep a fallback that I can go back if necessary
>>I have aload of stuff on it , some quite old (e.g. Vis Studio 2005) and need this there
>>
>>Any suggestions... e.g Dual Boot
>>Seen stuff about Ghost, but some sites say it is not ok with Windows 8
>>Any other products like Ghost that will take an 'Image' of the disk that I can restore to easily if required ?
>>Tia
>>Gerard
>
>Buy a second hard drive. Install Win8 on the other drive. You can switch back-and-forth in BIOS, or by cables if necessary.
>
>Only way I would go forward with Win8. If you want to do an upgrade, buy the hard drive, ghost your existing drive onto the new one, then do the upgrade on the new one, thereby maintaining your old XP as well.
>
>Best regards,
>Rick C. Hodgin