Dual booting Vista SP1 and XP SP2

[CZ]

FYI:

There have been some comments that SP1 would prevent XP's deletion of
Vista's restore points.
Not true, they are deleted. Perhaps XP's SP3 will prevent it.

 

[liu]

FYI:

There have been some comments that SP1 would prevent XP's deletion of
Vista's restore points.
Not true, they are deleted.  Perhaps XP's SP3 will prevent it.

I'm curious about dual boot. Can you install XP if the PC has Vista on
it first? what is the procedure to install XP and not affecting Vista
installed before it?

Thanks,

 

[Mick Murphy]

http://apcmag.com/5485/dualbooting_vista_and_xp

Have a read of the above link re dual booting with Visat first, including
pre-installed Vista.
Very informative

 

[Not Me]

I see you got a link, but in short, if Vista is installed first, you need a
third party boot manager to install XP without reinstalling/repairing Vista

FYI:

There have been some comments that SP1 would prevent XP's deletion of
Vista's restore points.
Not true, they are deleted. Perhaps XP's SP3 will prevent it.

I'm curious about dual boot. Can you install XP if the PC has Vista on
it first? what is the procedure to install XP and not affecting Vista
installed before it?

Thanks,

 

[Lee Phillips]

FYI:

There have been some comments that SP1 would prevent XP's deletion of
Vista's restore points.
Not true, they are deleted. Perhaps XP's SP3 will prevent it.

If you can't wait for XP SP3 (assuming that SP3 fixes it), this will do
it....

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926185

The only side effect that I can see is that - when in XP - you won't be
able to access any files stored on the Vista partition.

 

[CZ]

There have been some comments that SP1 would prevent XP's deletion of

Vista's restore points.
Not true, they are deleted. Perhaps XP's SP3 will prevent it.

If you can't wait for XP SP3 (assuming that SP3 fixes it), this will do
it....

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926185

The only side effect that I can see is that - when in XP - you won't be
able to access any files stored on the Vista partition.


Lee:

Actually, I find XP's ability to delete Vista's restore points useful.
Vista ignores my max setting for disk space to be used for restore points
(as did XP).
And, Disk Cleanup does not always free a significant amount of the disk
space used by the restore points.

So, a quick boot into XP solves the problem.

 

[Lee Phillips]

If you can't wait for XP SP3 (assuming that SP3 fixes it), this will do
it....

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926185

The only side effect that I can see is that - when in XP - you won't be
able to access any files stored on the Vista partition.


Lee:

Actually, I find XP's ability to delete Vista's restore points useful.
Vista ignores my max setting for disk space to be used for restore
points (as did XP).
And, Disk Cleanup does not always free a significant amount of the disk
space used by the restore points.

So, a quick boot into XP solves the problem.

Hehe... didn't expect that as the reply

Not that I'm an expert in how Microsoft's minds work, but I'd be
surprised if the 'fix' is included in SP3. Assuming that the only
resolution is to hide the Vista partition from XP this could have major
consequences for some (e.g. what if XP is currently set to share
document folders currently held on the Vista partition?).