Vista - Dual boot xp prof / vista RC1 installation

Do I need to
1. Make both the primary parttion active.
2. Will xp and vista boot fine
a) If botht the parttion active.
b) If Only 1 partition is active and XP is installed there.

Thanks,
RSK

No, just install onto a 2nd drive. You will then have a boot menu
immediately after POST asking if you want to boot Vista or earlier version
of Windows, and defaulting to booting Vista.

If Vista won't start successfully and you want to change the default boot
back to XP from XP, you will need to run BCDEDIT from a command prompt, and
you'll find it in the Vista windows\system32 directory.

Nick

"dhble" <dhble@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Do I need to
> 1. Make both the primary parttion active.
> 2. Will xp and vista boot fine
> a) If botht the parttion active.
> b) If Only 1 partition is active and XP is installed there.
>
> Thanks,
> RSK
>

Using VistaBootPro or EasyBCD is much easier and has an easy GUI format.


"Nick Payne" <someone@nowhere.au> wrote in message
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> No, just install onto a 2nd drive. You will then have a boot menu
> immediately after POST asking if you want to boot Vista or earlier version
> of Windows, and defaulting to booting Vista.
>
> If Vista won't start successfully and you want to change the default boot
> back to XP from XP, you will need to run BCDEDIT from a command prompt,
> and you'll find it in the Vista windows\system32 directory.
>
> Nick
>
> "dhble" <dhble@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:9157D826-2A47-47AE-A812-4B874601F7B7@microsoft.com...
>> Do I need to
>> 1. Make both the primary parttion active.
>> 2. Will xp and vista boot fine
>> a) If botht the parttion active.
>> b) If Only 1 partition is active and XP is installed there.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> RSK
>>
>
>