My dual boot experience (bad very bad)

Overall a very bad experience with a series of system errors. Started with
simple blues screen errors when trying to boot into XP progress to more
serious problems. The early problems were resolved by rebooting again. Then
booted into XP was advised that there had been major hardware changes that
required activation of XP. There had been no hardware changes since before
installing XP. But the capping error happen this morning when I was unable to
boot into XP. The blue screen stated Bad sys config Info. Thankfully I had a
pre Vista disk image and was able to get my system up and running again
without Vista since the boot manager was no longer installed. Reformated the
drive that contained Vista. No more starnge system errors.