Dual boot Xp and Vista

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A serious problem it is indeed, as I learned the hard way and ignored the
good advice I got here.

Currently running Vista Basic on a P3 until Dell fixes my crashed
Vista-ready Dimension.

Surprisingly, with 512 ram and a 256 \Radeon it ain't bad at all. But no
dual boot :-)
 
Yes, for clarification... not only on two separate partitions, but the
partitions are on different SATA physical drives as well (each drive is
partitioned for the whole thing being C drive)

However, this is not a bug, it is by design.

From the Vista Help files:

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FAQ: I have an earlier version of Windows on my computer, but when I switch
between versions, my restore points disappear. Why?
ANS: In this version of Windows, restore points are created differently and
are not recognized by earlier versions of Windows. If you have a dual-boot
configuration and you start an earlier version of Windows, the earlier
version will delete any restore points created by this version of Windows.
If you start this version of Windows, restore points will resume being
created automatically.
 
Dual boot is good for giving Vista a test drive while you still do yourwork in XP. This is because every time XP boots, it wipes out Vista's
restore points. As soon as you start relying on Vista, you should not boot
XP (unless you feel safe w/o restore points).

Daniel:

IMO, this obsession over the loss of Vista restore points due to dual
booting into XP is misplaced.
You should be concerned with having full backups.
On my main Vista setup a restore point is only 307MB, where as the disk
space used is about 13GB.
Obviously, a restore point has limited value period.

Case in point, recently I was locked out of my main Vista setup due a Vista
NTFS file system bug that affected a third party product. Restore points
were useless, backups were very useful!

I multi-boot two copies of Vista, two copies of XP, and two copies of Win2k3
server, and I do not worry about Vista restore points.

BTW, I use True Image v10 as my Vista backup software.
 
Yes, for clarification... not only on two separate partitions, but the
partitions are on different SATA physical drives as well (each drive is
partitioned for the whole thing being C drive)
Click to expand...

Thanks for the confirmation. Being on a separate drive shouldn't make
any difference as a partition looks the same as a different disk to
Windows but still...

Unfortunately I have a D: drive on my system disk so my thought of
swapping two drives over isn't really going to work and I'm using all
the other disk ports already.
However, this is not a bug, it is by design.

From the Vista Help files:

---------------
FAQ: I have an earlier version of Windows on my computer, but when I switch
between versions, my restore points disappear. Why?
ANS: In this version of Windows, restore points are created differently and
are not recognized by earlier versions of Windows. If you have a dual-boot
configuration and you start an earlier version of Windows, the earlier
version will delete any restore points created by this version of Windows.
If you start this version of Windows, restore points will resume being
created automatically.
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Click to expand...

Pardon me for being cynical but it sounds more like a bug they
couldn't fix. Why on earth would one OS delete files from another on a
different physical or logical disk? It's insane!

Thanks for the quote though :)

Simon.
 
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