Rock

"Mike Goeppner" wrote

> Nothing gets added to the C: drive as far as I know. you should be able to
> boot into XP and format the hard drive then edit your boot.ini file with
> no
> problems.
>
> "niknik1971" wrote:
>
>> I have just install visa onto my old computer and I am thinking of
>> putting
>> it on my new computer.
>> I have xp pro on my C: drive and I was thinking of putting vista on my D:
>> drive.
>> If when the beta period runs out, or if it (vista) does not like my
>> hardware/ software and is unusable could I not just boot into xp delete
>> all
>> the vista files on the D: drive and edit the boot.ini file?
>>
>> If vista is installed on the D: drive what gets added to the C: drive?


Vista's bootloader files get installed on the primary active partition.
Without knowing more about the OP's system that is most likely the C drive.

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Rock [ MVP User/Shell]