Paul T

Used XP to format my new 2nd HD before installing Vista Prem. and all went
smoothly..

"Vusta" <vusta@msnews.grp> wrote in message
news:uullL1ydHHA.2088@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>
> Hello Newsgroup,
>
> Not really a question about dual booting, more on the lines of reading
> disc
> formats. I have one physical disc that will be my system disc. This will
> be
> partitioned with XP Pro SP2, and Vista Ultimate. So far all is well.
>
> I have a 250 GB SATA II disc which will serve as my data disc, Documents,
> Music, Videos, Pictures, Databases,.... I wish to use the whole disc for
> both partitions, as the data disc.
>
> My question being, will WinXP Pro SP2 properly read the data disc if, I
> use
> WinVista Ultimate to format the disc, and redirect all (data, and temp)
> folders to the disc? And redirect equivalent folders in XP Pro SP2 to
> point
> to those folders too? I know it will work the other way around.
>
> If not, I have a separate data disc for each OS.
>
> Thank you very much Newsgroup.
>
> Regards,
> Vusta
> (It's my name, and I'm not from New Zealand saying Vista!)
>
>