Bernie

I've seen this kind of warning in many posts and I'd like to know what
the deal is here with regard to data loss when Vista is on a seperate
partition to XP.

I have good backups of all important data and several machines to play
with but I'm running Vista on a "production" machine. Now by production
I don't mean a development machine as I'm not doing any at present. If I
were then I might well be a lot more cautious. But it is still the
machine I use most for communication with clients and friends.

It has two large drives of around 250GB each. The first is divided into
two partitions with XP on the primary and Vista. The other disk is
purely a data disk.

I'm aware of the thing with restore points. I'm not worried if Vista or
even XP goes belly up for some reason. I'm sure I can reinstall without
a problem. It will be a pain to reinstall XP because of all the apps
that are installed on it but I have all the disks and licenses I need to
do that.

All my email and my email program is on the data disk. The program can
be run from Vista or XP and all the mail gets copied to a USB stick
every day as it is also used from other machines. (Portable Thunderbird
in case you're interested).

If anyone thinks my data is at risk with this kind of setup please tell
me how that could happen. It is backed up but I still wouldn't want to
restore unless I had to.




Colin Barnhorst wrote:
>
> Keep in mind, the advice is still not to do any of this on a production or
> primary home computer, so if a participant has XP up on a test box or at
> least an extra partition, then they should try an upgrade. If not, well
> they shouldn't even be trying Vista.
>