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Dual Booting...'One More Time'

Posted: 12-01-2006, 08:51 PM
After reading, playing, etc., I have created a successful dual booting
situation, with no apparent problems. But I'd like some informed opinions on
potential problems with my setup, e.g., interaction between the systems
and/or components. What happens to XP when in Vista, and vice versa?? After
reading about restore, I was concerned about Vista's restore writing to XP,
and vice versa, so for the time being, I turn off XP's restore function,
leaving Vista alone.

Barring unknown interaction, I see this as the best way to accomplish dual
booting! No known problems!

The system was initially configured with WinXP Pro, and ended up at WinXP
Pro SP2...everything works fine.

I installed Vista 5744 from within WinXP, installing it to a partitioin I
created on the SATA drive; XP is on my C:\, PATA drive. XP remains on C:\
and Vista on E:\. Still looking for the finished drivers for Logitech,
nVidia and Creative, but everything works fine. I also used VisaBootPro 3.1
to 'clean up' my boot system.

All comments gratefully received!

My system is a 3 year old home brew (06/03-no brag, just looking for
possible input on system):
Intel D875PBZ MBO
Antec 480W PS
Intel P4 3GHz
2GB RAM
nVidia GeForce 6600GT
3 HDD (2-200GB PATA
1-250GB SATA)
WD 250GB external HDD USB/Firewire
3 1/2" FDD
Internal Firewire card
2-DL DVD-RW
Creative Audigy2
Logitech wireless keyboard/mouse
Logitech cordless rumblepad2
2-21" Dell LCD monitors


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