Vista/XP Dual Boot?

[Malcolm H]

Well I have now been wrestling with my new Vista system for a week and
concluded that, although it has some strong points, there are good reasons
for keeping XP as well for as long as necessary until all the compatibility
issues are fixed.

So I am actively considering adding XP to my Vista system in a dual boot
scenario. I have 3 internal hard disks, 500Gb each, and therefore have ample
space for a new OS partition.

Please can any experts out there point me in the right direction to get
guidance on the best way to do this.

Many thanks

Malcolm H

 

[Michael Jennings]

Uh, here's a link on how to set it up reverse order, XP after Vista:
http://www.pro-networks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=88231
And here's a link on something to take care of about XP:
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/dualboot.html

 

[ken]

I have windows ultimate and set up 1 administerator and 2 stand users.
Outllok 2003 pro has been installed and it shows up in all users. My
question is how do you back up properely all the .pst files of each outlook
account?
ANYONE ABLE TO HELP

 

[Michael Jennings]

This probably isn't the right newsgroup for your question about
Outlook backup. Dual-booting certainly isn't the right topic.

Instead of hijacking a thread in the wrong group, you may have
better luck getting help if you start a new topic in this group:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.general

 

[Malcolm H]

Thanks for that Michael. I tried it but couldn't make it work with XP on a
different disk from Vista? It seems that the Pro-Networks solution requires
that both OSs are on the same disk?

The warnings on your second link seem to suggest that dual booting Vista and
XP is too risky to try anyway?

Are my understandings correct?

Malcolm H

 

[Michael Jennings]

Dual booting Vista and XP is sensible - many people who are doing it
set up dual booting without knowing about XP's creating Vista restore
corruption - they took care of that later. You should have noticed that the
"Create a Vista Dual Boot Menu" section suggests using VistaBootPRO:
http://www.vistabootpro.org/
Since you haven't got the Vista dual-boot menu, you didn't do that part.

My solution for the restore corruption was to turn off system restore in Vista.
If you don't like that idea, you could select one of the three methods for
keeping XP out of Vista at Bert Kinney's site. The most tedious is to
unplug the Vista drive each time you boot XP. Virtual PC is nicest, but
getting it going would be pretty involved. BootItNG is probably most
practical. Examine the tutorials and decide if you're willing to learn it.