Coexist with XP Pro ok ?

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I'm debating putting Vista Beta on it's own drive vs a partition on my
system disk. Any reasons for one vs the other ?
 
Yes this is possible I suspect you mean, plugging a clean hard disk, booting
off the disk and install Vista, right? One thing though, its possible that
you might encounter issues installing on RAW Disk, I suggest you install
Windows XP on it, then install Vista on a logical NTFS partition. Its much
safer this way, especially with Vista's new Windows Boot Manager, this will
make it easier to switch back to your XP hard disk when you are ready, its
really a great way to test.

Partitioning though is more of a convenience approach to testing, if you are
not those type of persons who pulls down your machine or keep the case open
always, you can simply have Vista installed on a logical partition and
reboot into it when you feel like.
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It all depends on whether you are willing to risk the loss of your Windows
XP Installation (that is if your hard drive goes bad, just like mine did a
couple of hours ago). I personally recommend that you install it on a
separate hard drive if you are installing Build 5308 CTP, I don't have
access to Builds 5342 and 5365, so I don't know how much better it is
compared to Build 5308 CTP, but I have heard Some Good Things about Build
5365 and some Very Bad Things about Build 5342, just FYI.
 
Ok so NOT a problem to share the drive ?
I currently have one SATA drive - 3 partitions: XP on C, X64 on E and
debating putting Vista on partition D . OR ,I've got a lots of unused
drives ( on the shelf) that had Win2000 on them ( FAT and NTFS). I could
install one of those and wipe it for Vista.
If putting Vista on my current drive won't cause me grief, I'd prefer
that. I just wanted to make sure that upon install ,step one isn't to
wipe the drive.( thereby losing my data)
 
No, Vista's setup when you launch it from within an existing version of
Windows such as XP x86 or XP x64 is very straight forward. Simply select the
partition you created for Vista, and setup will do the rest. If there is
existing data on the partition you created for Vista though, you will have
to format it first. Vista co-exist just fine with XP, thats how my
configuration is setup right now, I am multi booting with XP x86, XP x64,
Server 2003 x86, Server 2003 x64, Mac OS X x86 and Vista x86 build 5342.
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Do you not have access to Build 5365, Andre?

Andre Da Costa said:
No, Vista's setup when you launch it from within an existing version of
Windows such as XP x86 or XP x64 is very straight forward. Simply select
the partition you created for Vista, and setup will do the rest. If there
is existing data on the partition you created for Vista though, you will
have to format it first. Vista co-exist just fine with XP, thats how my
configuration is setup right now, I am multi booting with XP x86, XP x64,
Server 2003 x86, Server 2003 x64, Mac OS X x86 and Vista x86 build 5342.
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I did it the way Andre stated and it was a piece of cake. Put all my docs on
a logical drive E:. Installed XP on D:, Vista on C:. Works just fine, no
problema.
 
It really (can) be that simple :o)
But to be 100% honest, even I get scared of dual-booting on occasions - one
wrong move and that's it, an entire OS practically useless :o(

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Hah - I'm with Zack on that. Dual-booting gives me the willies on an actual
production machine, even though I've never had any problems with it. I mean,
it's a good thing to have a second, working OS onboard when you're beta
testing another OS. But once the beta is over and it's time to use the
actual product on my main working machine, I invariably go to just having
that one OS installed. (Not that anyone cares about my opinion)



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Unduly Paranoid
 
Puppy said:
I did it the way Andre stated and it was a piece of cake. Put all my
docs on a logical drive E:. Installed XP on D:, Vista on C:. Works just
fine, no problema.
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Will it set up a dual boot with XP if I run the Vista install DVD within
XP and direct Vista to install on a different partition or disk?
 
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