If you haven't changed the name of XP(which shows up as an earlier operating system) with Vista's built in boot editor consider using VistaBootPro or BootItNG.
http://www.vistabootpro.org/ http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootitng.html
The former is simpler, but the latter has many more options.
..winston
"Paul T" <pmt1209@hotmail.com> wrote in message news
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: 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!)
: >
: >
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