Dual boot XP/Vista and NTFS

[Guest Ham Pastrami]

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]

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 \(MVP\)]

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.