Guest Ham Pastrami Posted November 12, 2007 Posted November 12, 2007 I'd like to get XP and Vista installed to my computer for sandbox tests (still prefer to keep 2k as the primary environment). I'm a little concerned about whether the NTFS update is going to impact the existing filesystem. Do I need to create separate partitions for the additional operating systems or will it be sufficient to install to different folders?
Guest John John Posted November 12, 2007 Posted November 12, 2007 Re: Dual boot XP/Vista and NTFS Ham Pastrami wrote: > I'd like to get XP and Vista installed to my computer for sandbox tests > (still prefer to keep 2k as the primary environment). I'm a little concerned > about whether the NTFS update is going to impact the existing filesystem. > > Do I need to create separate partitions for the additional operating systems > or will it be sufficient to install to different folders? Each operating system must reside on its own partition, create a separate partition for each. John
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted November 12, 2007 Posted November 12, 2007 Re: Dual boot XP/Vista and NTFS "Ham Pastrami" <nomail@dot.com> wrote in message news:%23KcWLrQJIHA.3940@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > I'd like to get XP and Vista installed to my computer for sandbox tests > (still prefer to keep 2k as the primary environment). I'm a little > concerned > about whether the NTFS update is going to impact the existing filesystem. > > Do I need to create separate partitions for the additional operating > systems > or will it be sufficient to install to different folders? > > If you intend to play in the "Vista sand pit" then your safest and least intrusive method is to ask your friendly computer dealer for an old disk (20 GBytes will do very nicely!) and use it instead of your current system disk.
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