dualboot vista

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I have followed Greg's advice with decidedly mixed results, however. Theoretically, it should make no difference whether you install on separate hard drives or on separate bootable partitions of a single hard drive. After all, the partition is identified by a drive letter, just as if it were a separate hard drive.

That said, I encountered unexpected glitches that may dissuade you from following in my footsteps. I installed Windows XP MCE on partition [b]C[/b], and Vista Home Premium on partition [b]D[/b]. You can configure the boot screen to preference, determining seconds to default booting, and determining the default OS.

When I installed SP1 over Vista, I lost access to the [b]D[/b] partition. Upon reformatting the [b]D[/b] partition and reinstalling Vista, dual booting worked fine.

When I attempted to install Vista patches, these corrupted XP, even though the installation was conducted within the [b]D[/b] partition.

Others have posted a work-around, to isolate downloads so that cross-partition corruption is prevented. But after all that I have described, are you [b]sure[/b] you want to deal with all this?

I recommend selecting a preferred operating system and tweaking it to your preference. Dual booting is likely to prove an exercise in unnecessary frustration.

Rick/Portland, OR

http://apcmag.com/how_to_dualboot_vista_with_xp__stepbystep_guide_with_screenshots.htm
http://www.syschat.com/dual-boot-vista-xp-vista-already-1946.html
http://www.windowstalk.org/dual_boot_vista.htm

Please post back if you have any more problems or questions.