John Barnes

Sorry, that's Rock :-(

"John Barnes" <jbarnes@email.net> wrote in message
news:OQPsJ0u5GHA.2264@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>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)
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> "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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