DUAL BOOT??? Just built new rig, Vista64, no drivers for my sound card!

[Falseprophet]

Ok here it is. I recently upgraded my RIG, and discovered NO VISTA64 drivers for my Recording Studio " M-AUDIO Delta Audiophile 192 " Sound card!!! I have checked the manufactures website and it looks like they are in beta testing for the drivers, however the last release looks like it was about 3-xx-08 last month sometime and they pulled the beta driver off the sight. *** So here I find myself with the $300 sound card and my $600 M-Audio BX8a Monitor Speakers starting to collect dust and no sound for my computer at the moment...

I would like to know how to Dual Boot or TRI boot, from scratch and fresh partition, Format and install. the partitioniong of the drive and formating I can do just fine, I just need suggestions, and instruction after the drives are wiped and formated. It will be on my 500G sata2 drive. I like to partition my drives MIN 3 way. (OS or multiple partitions for multipile os) (PROGRAMS) (DATA) so usually it would look like: 1st partition(XP PRO) 2nd(PROGRAMS) 3rd(DATA)... but I can make more partitions in the 1st section if that will help seperate the multiple OS's

I would like to install my XP PRO & XP Pro64 & Vista32 and Vista ULT 64

But I can change the list and number of OS. I have to have xp32 and would like vista 64 at the minimum. it is hard to tell what drivers I can get off m-audio's website at the moment, it looks as though they are changing things the sight is slow and crashing left and right. I know there are drivers for xp32 and vista32 and I used to have a beta for xp64 that worked. but at the moment none of the 64 drivers are avaliable on the site for download "ONLY selected BETA testers have access"

So in short I just need to know how to dual or TRI boot xp and vista OS's FROM A CLEAN INSTALL.

***** I have a good XP32 install on the drive atm 40 gig partition, if there is a way to dual boot that with vista 64, with out doing a clean install that would help a lot also.. I'm sorta a NEWB when it comes to this Dual Booting Stuff.

 

[stool]

I don't want to steer you wrong, so do a search first about which order to do your setup. Most of the time, you need to install different OS's in a particular order to avoid F'up's.

 

[Falseprophet]

I found a very good detailed article on it complete with scenerio and step by step pics. a take you by the hand and walk you through it kinda thing. so I am all good