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Re: advice needed, please
Looks like I will not bother with doing that then.
I will just have to wait till the final version comes out till I bite the
bullet
NIK
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"John Barnes" <jbarnes@email.net> wrote in message
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> Sorry, that's Rock :-(
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> "John Barnes" <jbarnes@email.net> wrote in message
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>>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...
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>>> 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.
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>>> "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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