Vista - Dual boot - Single copy

I am getting a new PC for general use and also for music production. I will
be running Home Premium 32bit. I would like to keep general and music
seperate so i was going to dual boot to versions of vista.

Is it legal to do this under one license or do i need to buy two copies of
vista?

You'll need to purchase another "full version" of Windows Vista
if you wish to install a second instance as a dual-boot. The license
is strictly for one installation on one computer.

I would recommend that you install a second hard drive (as a slave)
and install the new Vista operating system on it. Vista will automatically
create the dual-boot loader.

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User

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"jan" wrote:

I am getting a new PC for general use and also for music production. I will
be running Home Premium 32bit. I would like to keep general and music
seperate so i was going to dual boot to versions of vista.

Is it legal to do this under one license or do i need to buy two copies of
vista?

Additional:

If this is not legal, to save buying 2 copies, is it possible to set up 2
users on the same copy but keep one user clean.

By clean i mean i will not have all the applications used for general use on
the clean copy and possibly have it optimised for music by turning off some
background services.

My reasoning is that when you buy a new PC its really fast start installing
stuff and it starts to slow down. I want to keep it fast on the clean copy!

You can create a new user but whatever is installed for them installed
for all - it still (normally) goes in Program Files and adds to the
registry for the PC.


jan wrote:
> Additional:
>
> If this is not legal, to save buying 2 copies, is it possible to set up 2
> users on the same copy but keep one user clean.
>
> By clean i mean i will not have all the applications used for general use on
> the clean copy and possibly have it optimised for music by turning off some
> background services.
>
> My reasoning is that when you buy a new PC its really fast start installing
> stuff and it starts to slow down. I want to keep it fast on the clean copy!