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09-12-2007
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| | Dual boot question I have XP and Vista on 2 separate hard drives. Seems I may have a sneaky virus and I don't trust that the scans got everything so I want to reinstall XP. Since it's best to have XP installed before installing Vista, can I reformat and reinstall XP on the separate drive and will Vista even realize it? Meaning, will Vista's bootloader be changed or will it just see the XP boot info and not even know it was reinstalled? Thanks |
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09-13-2007
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| | Re: Dual boot question Depends on where your Vista boot files are. If they are on the XP drive, you will have to run Vista start-up repair after the XP install. "Paul" <pcostanza@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:OE6LjOb9HHA.980@xxxxxx Quote: >I have XP and Vista on 2 separate hard drives. Seems I may have a sneaky >virus and I don't trust that the scans got everything so I want to >reinstall XP. Since it's best to have XP installed before installing >Vista, can I reformat and reinstall XP on the separate drive and will Vista >even realize it? Meaning, will Vista's bootloader be changed or will it >just see the XP boot info and not even know it was reinstalled? > Thanks > |
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