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Re: advice needed, please
I agree with you 100%.
Rick is right that the odds favour the Vista boot files will be written on
the C drive. At the very least, the XP MBR must be restored and if the
computer has a special MBR installed by the system builder, that is what
should be restored (like systems with a restore partition)
"jwardl" <jwardl@spamthis.com> wrote in message
news:E4C52421-80A5-46BF-93A8-22367DE8ABD1@microsoft.com...
> Have heard lots of "horror" stories on this...
>
> Do yourself a favor: hard drives are cheap. Get another drive (a 20 gig
> will do if money is an issue) and put Vista on it. Go into your BIOS and
> *disable* the controller of your primary drive before installing (and
> while using) Vista. If you have to transfer stuff from your XP hard drive,
> do it via CD/DVD burner or flash drive. It'll save alot of headaches.
>
>
> "niknik1971" <niknik1971NOSPAM@btopenworld.com> wrote in message
> news:OFj0Jjk5GHA.1200@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>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?
>>
>> Any help and advice would be gratefully appreciated.
>>
>> NIK
>>
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