I've actually tried hiding the Vista partition but found that it didn't
work, which was quite disappointing. In the end I reverted to using the
bitlocker encryption method. Although i still use the dual boot i have now
installed VMware Workstation 6 beta onto Vista and installed a copy of XP
onto the Virtual PC.
While i do like VMware workstation i am not so keen on the length of time it
takes to load its drivers as it does add 15 to 20 seconds to boot up and,
until the drivers are actually loaded and the internet activity icon has
fully initialised it is difficult to get access to the internet. But VMware
Workstation 6 is still in beta so hopefully this delay may be resolved.
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"I.P. Nichols" <NoSpan@nada.com> wrote in message
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> For certain reasons I have chosen to dual boot XP and Vista and not to
> hide the Vista drive so as to prevent XP from removing Vista's system
> restore points. Until recently I would manually create a restore point
> each time I returned from XP to Vista. Lately I have been using a script
> that creates a daily restore point on starting Vista as discussed in this
> article. While the article was written for XP, I find it works equally
> well in Vista.
>
> http://windowsxp.mvps.org/checkpoints.htm
>
> Even if you aren't interested in using the technique, the article has an
> good description of when automatic restore checkpoints are created.