Windows XP on Windows Vista

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I have a machine with Vista Home Premium in the C drive. I want to install
Windows XP Professional in the D drive. Are there any issues in doing so?
 
If your computer has the horse power and sufficient RAM (2 gig), I would
install Microsoft VirtualPC and then install Windows XP under VirtualPC.

This way you can start XP while you are up and running in Vista.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
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You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
Well, it depends on how you set up your dual boot, doesn't it? If it is set
up so that the booted system cannot see the non-booted system's hidden
partition, and both systems save their restore points to their private
partition, how would either system affect the other?
Maybe Microsoft doesn't provide this capability but surely third party boot
managers can do it???

-Paul Randall
 
Hi Paul,

That is covered in the link I provided. Basically the solutions to this are
to use a third party boot manager to hide each booted partition from the
other, or to use Vista Ultimate with bitlocker.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
 
Hi Scooter,

MS VPC will installed on all versions of Windows Vista and XP. On home
versions a message that VPC 2007 is not supported on their host OS will
appear, then install and run without issues. What this means is that the
user will not be able to call Microsoft for technical Support.

Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org
Member: http://dts-l.org
 
Thanks Bert!


Bert said:
Hi Scooter,

MS VPC will installed on all versions of Windows Vista and XP. On home
versions a message that VPC 2007 is not supported on their host OS
will appear, then install and run without issues. What this means is
that the user will not be able to call Microsoft for technical
Support.
Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org
Member: http://dts-l.org
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