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| | Dual Boot OS swap I have XP Home on drive 0 - C: I have Vista Ultimate on drive 1 - D: Vista was installed through C: VistaBootPro is on C: All works fine :-) (God forbid I should leave things alone) Is there any advantage to swapping Vista to C:? |
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| | Re: Dual Boot OS swap BChat wrote: > I have XP Home on drive 0 - C: > I have Vista Ultimate on drive 1 - D: > Vista was installed through C: > VistaBootPro is on C: > All works fine :-) > (God forbid I should leave things alone) > > Is there any advantage to swapping Vista to C:? No. But will that stop you from tinkering? ;-) Malke -- Elephant Boy Computers www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User |
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| | Re: Dual Boot OS swap "Malke" <notreally@invalid.invalid> wrote in message news:%23PCeWWwwHHA.1208@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... BChat wrote: > I have XP Home on drive 0 - C: > I have Vista Ultimate on drive 1 - D: > Vista was installed through C: > VistaBootPro is on C: > All works fine :-) > (God forbid I should leave things alone) > > Is there any advantage to swapping Vista to C:? No. But will that stop you from tinkering? ;-) Ah - well - it might - I'm getting older - I'm getting wiser ;-) |
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| | Re: Dual Boot OS swap No. And depending on how you plan to do it you could really mess things up. "BChat" <BChat@nowhere.net> wrote in message news:ukJ7YsvwHHA.4184@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >I have XP Home on drive 0 - C: > I have Vista Ultimate on drive 1 - D: > Vista was installed through C: > VistaBootPro is on C: > All works fine :-) > (God forbid I should leave things alone) > > Is there any advantage to swapping Vista to C:? |
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| | Re: Dual Boot OS swap "BChat" <BChat@nowhere.net> wrote in message news:ukJ7YsvwHHA.4184@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >I have XP Home on drive 0 - C: > I have Vista Ultimate on drive 1 - D: > Vista was installed through C: > VistaBootPro is on C: > All works fine :-) > (God forbid I should leave things alone) > > Is there any advantage to swapping Vista to C:? "All works fine :-)" ??? Then why on earth would you want to jeopardize that? To quote those Milk ads... "Got backups?" Lang |
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| | Re: Dual Boot OS swap "Lang Murphy" <lang_murphy@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:CB712ADB-7498-4190-BDF3-B8816D5D8C9D@microsoft.com... "BChat" <BChat@nowhere.net> wrote in message news:ukJ7YsvwHHA.4184@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >I have XP Home on drive 0 - C: > I have Vista Ultimate on drive 1 - D: > Vista was installed through C: > VistaBootPro is on C: > All works fine :-) > (God forbid I should leave things alone) > > Is there any advantage to swapping Vista to C:? "All works fine :-)" ??? Then why on earth would you want to jeopardize that? To quote those Milk ads... "Got backups?" Lang --------- I use Acronis True Image to keep updated images of C: & D: I am a FIRM believer in backups I am not really sure why/where the ''swap'' idea occurred to me ;-) Probably from the same area of the brain that thought marriage was a good idea. No OS swap will be taking place. |
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| | Re: Dual Boot OS swap <snip> > "All works fine :-)" ??? Then why on earth would you want to jeopardize > that? To quote those Milk ads... "Got backups?" > > Lang > --------- > > I use Acronis True Image to keep updated images of C: & D: > I am a FIRM believer in backups > I am not really sure why/where the ''swap'' idea occurred to me ;-) > Probably from the same area of the brain that thought marriage was a good > idea. Nuff said! ;-) > No OS swap will be taking place. > All right then... Lang |
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