This is a nice tip in the tools to protect the Vista restore points when you
boot to another OS on the same box, however...
One of the things that has perplexed me as to this issue is why the hell
people need to boot to their XP desktop much at all, since one can create a
two click shortcut in seconds from the Vista desktop to the XP desktop
accessing everything on XP except Outlook Express. They can copy any OE
folders or messages to the Vista desktop once they do boot to XP. They can
easily merge their XP Outlook with Vista Outlook.
To access the XP desktop or using the same method anywhere else on Win XP
except OE:
XP Drive as labled from Vista:\Documents and Settings\User's profile on
XP\Desktop (or whatever other location you need's filepath)
CH
"Computer Guru" <ComputerGuru@NeoSmart.net> wrote in message
news:1180796979.592160.129270@p47g2000hsd.googlegroups.com...
> One of the most common questions I've seen asked here is if it's
> possible to hide the Windows Vista partition from Windows XP
> installations because of the bug where Windows XP will delete the
> system restore points for all Vista installs on that machine if it
> sees the drive [1]. One solution is to use Bitlocker drive encryption
> which rarely works and another is to use 3rd party paid products like
> PQBoot or Acronis OS Selector - none of which are very compatible nor
> free; and tend to create more problems than they solve.
>
> Here is another solution which uses the 100% free EasyBCD and the
> NeoGrub component - unlike other options, these were built for,
> around, and on Windows Vista, so compatibility is a non-issue.
>
> You can use NeoGrub to boot into multiple Windows XP installations and
> hide all Vista installs in the progress as well; circumventing the
> system restore bug entirely.
>
> These are the detailed step-by-step instructions:
> http://neosmart.net/blog/2007/hide-v...ition-from-xp/
>
> EasyBCD can be downloaded for free from http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1
> NeoGrub Documentation (WIP): http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD/NeoGrub
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> [1]: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926185
>
> -Computer Guru
> http://neosmart.net/
>