Installing RC2 as dual boot with earlier Vista build

[Guest]

I've found that I cannot install RC2 as an upgrade to "Pre-RC1".
I have a second partition that has never had an OS installed to it before,
what if I were to custom install RC2 to that drive; specifically, will it
pick up the application registry data of my existing Vista install so the
applications would run properly in RC2.
If this would work, I would prefer to try it than to do a clean install and
then reinstall the apps I am working with. If not, then I will bite the
bullet and do the clean install and application re-install.
If this question has been asked and answered here before, but applicable to
RC1 or some other build, I did not want to assume that what worked for that
release still applies now. Thanks in advance for your guidance.

 

[Guest]

I decided not to wait for an answer, or to try installing a dual boot, but
installed RC2 from booting the DVD and formatting C:. Went smooth as silk.
Now I just need to reinstall some of my apps. However, I'd still be curious
to know whether the scheme I had in mind would work.

Ron

 

[David Wilkinson]

I've found that I cannot install RC2 as an upgrade to "Pre-RC1".
I have a second partition that has never had an OS installed to it before,
what if I were to custom install RC2 to that drive; specifically, will it
pick up the application registry data of my existing Vista install so the
applications would run properly in RC2.
If this would work, I would prefer to try it than to do a clean install and
then reinstall the apps I am working with. If not, then I will bite the
bullet and do the clean install and application re-install.
If this question has been asked and answered here before, but applicable to
RC1 or some other build, I did not want to assume that what worked for that
release still applies now. Thanks in advance for your guidance.

Ron:

If you use a 3rd party boot manager such as BootIt NG (highly
recommended) then you can multi-boot as many versions of any operating
systems as you like. I have Windows 2000, two versions of XP, and 4
versions of Vista all coexisting happily on my test machine. All OS's
install in exactly the same way, and are independent of each other. They
can be installed or reinstalled in any order.

The time you spend learning BootIt NG will be much less than trying to
figure out the Vista bootloader.

David Wilkinson