setup dual boot?

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Tim Scott Mathews

I installed Vista Home Premium and chose upgrade to see how well it would
handle all my current programs and settings. I was quite pleased with that
aspect BUT, sadly, several of the programs I use a lot on a daily basis--PDA
related--haven't yet been upgraded so, totally converting to Vista at this
point isn't an option for me. I've reformatted, re-installed XP and
partitioned my hard drive with Windows XP on C. If I start the installation
of Vista from within XP, will I get an option to install to the newly
created "d" drive and run dual boot or is there some special procedure I
need to follow?

Thanks,
Tim
 
It might be better if you start the Vista installation from the Vista DVD (ie
not from within XP) as this will allow which ever OS you are booting from to
run from the "c" drive (XP will be on "c" when it is running and Vista on "c"
when it is running - the physical drives stay the same, just the nominclature
the drives is changed to reflect the operating system being used. Doing it
this way means that the operating system that is booting is always going to
show up as "c" which is good for programs that need to start from the c
drive. This is the way I setup dual boot and it works like a charm.
 
It might be better if you start the Vista installation from the Vista DVD (ie
not from within XP) as this will allow which ever OS you are booting from to
run from the "c" drive (XP will be on "c" when it is running and Vista on "c"
when it is running - the physical drives stay the same, just the nominclature
the drives is changed to reflect the operating system being used. Doing it
this way means that the operating system that is booting is always going to
show up as "c" which is good for programs that need to start from the c
drive. This is the way I setup dual boot and it works like a charm.
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Just don't expect system restore to work. :-)
 
I understand that booting into XP will cause loss of Vista restore points;
however, according to MS a new system restore point will be
created on the next Vista boot. Is this not true?
 
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