Vista - Before I mess up a good dual boot

09-13-2007

I have XP and Vista on 2 separate hard drives. Seems I may have a sneaky
virus on the XP side 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 that same drive again without it messing the
boot? Meaning, will Vista's bootloader be changed or will it just see the
XP
boot info and not even know it was reinstalled?
Thanks

09-15-2007

Asked and answered in .general

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Paul" <pcostanza@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I have XP and Vista on 2 separate hard drives. Seems I may have a sneaky
> virus on the XP side 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 that same drive again without it messing the
> boot? Meaning, will Vista's bootloader be changed or will it just see the
> XP
> boot info and not even know it was reinstalled?
> Thanks
>

09-13-2007	#1 (permalink)
Paul n/a posts	Before I mess up a good dual boot I have XP and Vista on 2 separate hard drives. Seems I may have a sneaky virus on the XP side 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 that same drive again without it messing the boot? 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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09-15-2007	#2 (permalink)
Rick Rogers n/a posts	Re: Before I mess up a good dual boot Asked and answered in .general -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com "Paul" <pcostanza@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:5B4253C2-9DC6-4E0C-9667-11EAE3C25813@xxxxxx Quote: >I have XP and Vista on 2 separate hard drives. Seems I may have a sneaky > virus on the XP side 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 that same drive again without it messing the > boot? Meaning, will Vista's bootloader be changed or will it just see the > XP > boot info and not even know it was reinstalled? > Thanks >
My System Specs

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