Vista Tutorial - Ghosting Around with Xp and Vista :-)

Hello, I now have XP on my first partition and Vista on my second
parition...

can I ghost both OS as images and then place Vista on the first partition
and XP on the second one?
All this without destroying the apps that are installed on each OS?

I know how to ghost and put the os's back the only question is if changing
from parition 0 to 1 of XP and Vista from 1 to 0
will mess things up...

I can fix the bootloader with the vista boot dvd of course so thats not a
problem.

Some notes:

XP when it runs it "sees" its partion that is the first one as C
Vista when it runs it "Sees" its partiton that is the second one as C too

dont ask me why I want to do this, I just do! Any tips would be welcome

thanks

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You can also use VistaBoot Pro to manipulate the bootloader.

"cheen" <cheen@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Be aware that there are very many entires in the registry of XP and
separately in the registry for Vista that point to a drive location, such as
C:\...\...\. If you move the contents of the paritions in a way that
changes the drive letters, say C:\ to D:\, then one or both will not work.

"cheen" <cheen@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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"On the Bridge" wrote:The behavior that you describe for Vista is the same
behavior for XP - the OS will continue to refer to its own
partition by the same letter name that it had when it was
installed, and it will temporarily assign other letter names to
the other partitions that it sees. Just be careful about setting
up the boot menu, so that the correct partition is selected for
loading at boot time.

Also observe the standard procedure when making a
clone of WinNT/2K/XP. That is to not let it see its "parent"
OS when it (the clone) is started up for its first run. Once
the clone has been run once without seeing its "parent" OS,
it can thereafter see its "parent" with no problems.

*TimDaniels*