Dual boot XP/Vista and NTFS

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Ham Pastrami

I'd like to get XP and Vista installed to my computer for sandbox tests
(still prefer to keep 2k as the primary environment). I'm a little concerned
about whether the NTFS update is going to impact the existing filesystem.

Do I need to create separate partitions for the additional operating systems
or will it be sufficient to install to different folders?
 
Ham said:
I'd like to get XP and Vista installed to my computer for sandbox tests
(still prefer to keep 2k as the primary environment). I'm a little concerned
about whether the NTFS update is going to impact the existing filesystem.

Do I need to create separate partitions for the additional operating systems
or will it be sufficient to install to different folders?
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Each operating system must reside on its own partition, create a
separate partition for each.

John
 
Ham Pastrami said:
I'd like to get XP and Vista installed to my computer for sandbox tests
(still prefer to keep 2k as the primary environment). I'm a little
concerned
about whether the NTFS update is going to impact the existing filesystem.

Do I need to create separate partitions for the additional operating
systems
or will it be sufficient to install to different folders?
Click to expand...

If you intend to play in the "Vista sand pit" then your
safest and least intrusive method is to ask your friendly
computer dealer for an old disk (20 GBytes will do very
nicely!) and use it instead of your current system disk.
 
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