The way out.....dual boot ?

[Guest]

Hi Folks.
Thanks for the patience of all you guys that are continually answering the
same questions about dual-booting.

I've read most of them but still have difficulty in understanding.

I have retail Vista Business and XP.
XP is on C:
Vista was installed from the XP desktop onto a new hard drive E:
I have the choice on boot up of Vista or XP.

So far so good....

But, having read all the messages about XP wiping out all the system restore
points, I've avoided actually re-booting to XP in case that happens.

So............

I know that I can disconnect the power supply to the E: drive.
1) Will that allow me to boot to XP????????? or will the boot up choice have
a problem now that the Vista drive is unavailable?
2) At the beginning I installed Vistabootpro (which doesn't help the above
problem).......how do I uninstall it??????
3) If, as everyone suggests, I should use BootIT NG, is it installed under
XP or under Vista...........or, if both, which first??
4) One would think that, as Vista was installed using XP, then XP would then
accept that Vista is present and NOT delete restore points. Am I correct that
it will still delete them anyway?
5) If I have to install BootIT under XP, how do I stop it from deleting the
restore points ? Running XP to do the installation will delete the restore
points as soon as it boots.

Thanks for all the invaluable assistance!
Morris

 

[John Barnes]

I know that I can disconnect the power supply to the E: drive.

1) Will that allow me to boot to XP????????? or will the boot up choice
have
a problem now that the Vista drive is unavailable?
Yes.

2) At the beginning I installed Vistabootpro (which doesn't help the
above
problem).......how do I uninstall it??????

Control Panel/uninstall a program

3) If, as everyone suggests, I should use BootIT NG, is it installed under
XP or under Vista...........or, if both, which first??

Shouldn't make any difference, but if you are going to delete XP at some
time I would use Vista

4) One would think that, as Vista was installed using XP, then XP would
then
accept that Vista is present and NOT delete restore points. Am I correct
that
it will still delete them anyway?

Yes, it will.

5) If I have to install BootIT under XP, how do I stop it from deleting
the
restore points ? Running XP to do the installation will delete the restore
points as soon as it boots.

Install on Vista. Another reason

 

[Guest]

Thanks for speedy response John.
Could you just clarify your answer to point 1).
You answered YES but to which part of the 'either... or'

 

[John Barnes]

You should make sure when you set up that both drives are independently
bootable. If you installed XP originally, it will have the necessary boot
records on the XP drive. Anything else will be dependent on how your BIOS
works and you may have to make manual BIOS boot priority changes each time
you disconnect your Vista drive, either when you boot to XP or when you go
back to Vista. You will have to see how your BIOS changes when you
disconnect a drive and reconnect it.

 

[Bert Kinney]

Hi,

Hi Folks.
Thanks for the patience of all you guys that are continually answering the
same questions about dual-booting.

I've read most of them but still have difficulty in understanding.

I have retail Vista Business and XP.
XP is on C:
Vista was installed from the XP desktop onto a new hard drive E:
I have the choice on boot up of Vista or XP.

So far so good....

But, having read all the messages about XP wiping out all the system restore
points, I've avoided actually re-booting to XP in case that happens.

So............

I know that I can disconnect the power supply to the E: drive.
1) Will that allow me to boot to XP????????? or will the boot up choice have
a problem now that the Vista drive is unavailable?
2) At the beginning I installed Vistabootpro (which doesn't help the above
problem).......how do I uninstall it??????
3) If, as everyone suggests, I should use BootIT NG, is it installed under
XP or under Vista...........or, if both, which first??

Bootit NG (BING) is totally OS independent. BING can be run from bootable
Floppy or CD on installed on it's own partition.

TeraByte Unlimited Knowledge Base
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/kb/category.php?id=8

4) One would think that, as Vista was installed using XP, then XP would then
accept that Vista is present and NOT delete restore points. Am I correct that
it will still delete them anyway?
5) If I have to install BootIT under XP, how do I stop it from deleting the
restore points ? Running XP to do the installation will delete the restore
points as soon as it boots.

The following page will explain the issue in more detail.
Dual Booting Windows Vista & Windows XP:
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/dualboot.html

Thanks for all the invaluable assistance!
Morris

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

 

[AJR]

What's the problem - Vista uses a different restore format - when you exit
XP snd boot back into Vista - just create a newVista restore point.

 

[John Barnes]

Sure does a lot of good if you find out a program you installed weeks ago is
causing problems and you can't get it to uninstall. Many times you don't
know you have a problem with the registry until later. If the current
registry were always good after boot, you wouldn't need system restore, last
known good would be all that is needed.

 

[Bert Kinney]

That fine if you don't mind loosing all the restore points and shadow copies
which contain previous versions. I surly do not!

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

 

[Bert Kinney]

Hi John,

The last known good feature is not much different than in XP and is
extremely limited. Choosing the Last Known Good Configuration startup option
provides a way to recover from problems such as a newly added driver that
may be incorrect for your hardware. It does not solve problems caused by
corrupted or missing drivers or files.
When you choose Last Known Good Configuration, only the information in
registry key HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet is restored. Any changes made to
other registry keys remain.

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