Vista RC1 and XP home

[Guest]

Can I dualboot Vista RC1 and XP home?

If so, which is RIGHT?
C:\ Windows Vista RC1
D:\ Windows XP Home
~~~~~~OR~~~~~~~
C:\ Windows XP Home
D:\ Windows Vista RC1

After install Vista, what it doing? I do that before and when i install it
and when i turn on then my computer run XP on D: that all and there no dual
boot, and what happen when install vista on D:\? Please help me I want
install both XP and Vista RC1 on ONE hard drive. My one hard drive has 2 hard
drive

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Either could be right, but Vista likes to call the drive it is on "C:".
Install XP, then install Vista to the other volume. Setup will take care of
lettering the drives.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Not necessarily. If you boot with the Vista dvd the drive enumeration will
correspond to the BIOS order and what you indicate will be true.

However, if you start the Vista Setup from the XP desktop the XP enumeration
will be picked up and used by Vista and drive letters will be the same in
both OS's; XP will be on C: and Vista on D: no matter which OS you are in
when you observe the lettering.

 

[Guest]

I not install vista yet, Right now i am use XP. When i install Vista with DVD
at startup and install vista RC1 on D:\. when finish and will it say "Early
windows and Vista" at start up?

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Yes it will, as with previous OS setups, Vista's bootloader will recognize a
currently installed OS and add it as an option to boot.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

RC1 might. RTM identifies the boot entries normally. When I installed
Vista rtm on my test box it kep my XP Pro x64 entry the way I had named it.
Beta versions still had the "Legacy" or "Earlier Version" of Windows type of
entry. In any event you can easily edit the entries with VistaBoot Pro from
either OS.