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glensumner
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dual xp and vista
      #387851 - Tue Mar 11 2008 12:33 PM

I want to dual boot vista and xp. I have read a couple of tutorials on this but none mention if you can either see or write across into each others partitions. Any idea folks?

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Re: dual xp and vista [Re: glensumner]
      #387859 - Tue Mar 11 2008 02:38 PM

Once you boot to an operating system in a multi-boot environment, the other OSs are treated as 'data', so, effectively you can delete and change most of the files.

Be aware of a loss of system restore points in a Vista dual-boot environment, look here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926185

Also, you might like to use VistaBootPro to handle the dual-booting, here http://www.pro-networks.org/vistabootpro/

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Re: dual xp and vista [Re: BurrWalnut]
      #387992 - Wed Mar 12 2008 03:08 PM

cheers BurrWalnut interesting i'll probably give it a go and see i'm reluctant to let xp go just yet so i'll go along with it tentatively and see how we go!

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Re: dual xp and vista [Re: glensumner]
      #388001 - Wed Mar 12 2008 03:34 PM

Good luck.

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Re: dual xp and vista [Re: BurrWalnut]
      #389264 - Mon Mar 24 2008 12:43 AM

I see we made the magazine with this my nine year old daughter was very impressed!

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