Dual Booting...'One More Time'

[John C. Iliff]

After reading, playing, etc., I have created a successful dual booting
situation, with no apparent problems. But I'd like some informed opinions on
potential problems with my setup, e.g., interaction between the systems
and/or components. What happens to XP when in Vista, and vice versa?? After
reading about restore, I was concerned about Vista's restore writing to XP,
and vice versa, so for the time being, I turn off XP's restore function,
leaving Vista alone.

Barring unknown interaction, I see this as the best way to accomplish dual
booting! No known problems!

The system was initially configured with WinXP Pro, and ended up at WinXP
Pro SP2...everything works fine.

I installed Vista 5744 from within WinXP, installing it to a partitioin I
created on the SATA drive; XP is on my C:\, PATA drive. XP remains on C:\
and Vista on E:\. Still looking for the finished drivers for Logitech,
nVidia and Creative, but everything works fine. I also used VisaBootPro 3.1
to 'clean up' my boot system.

All comments gratefully received!

My system is a 3 year old home brew (06/03-no brag, just looking for
possible input on system):
Intel D875PBZ MBO
Antec 480W PS
Intel P4 3GHz
2GB RAM
nVidia GeForce 6600GT
3 HDD (2-200GB PATA
1-250GB SATA)
WD 250GB external HDD USB/Firewire
3 1/2" FDD
Internal Firewire card
2-DL DVD-RW
Creative Audigy2
Logitech wireless keyboard/mouse
Logitech cordless rumblepad2
2-21" Dell LCD monitors

 

[John Barnett MVP]

I've been using a dual boot, and sometimes a triple boot system, for a good
few years now without any problems.
As for system restore turning off system restore in XP will not make any
difference to the loss of restore points in Vista. i have mine turned off in
XP, but still loose restore point in Vista when i boot to XP. Two solutions:
if you have Vista Ultimate use Bitlocker encryption, this will prevent XP
from overwriting the shadow copy files of Vista. If you don't have Vista
ultimate hide the Vista partition so XP can't see it.


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John Barnett MVP
Associate Expert
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