Dual Boot Vista and XP Pro stillife <stillife.3kw9vc[ at ]DoNotSpam.com> 12/23/2008 10:48:51 PM Hi all, I've noticed that there are a lot of threads about dual booting Vista and XP and I've tried to look through most to find an answer to my question. However I haven't been able to find any threads talking about this. I apologize if this is a repeat. I have been able to setup both XP and Vista on my computer. I have been able to boot into either system through Vista BCD following the tutorials available (eg. 'this one' (http://vistasupport.mvps.org/install_windows_xp_on_machine_running_vista.htm)). Now my question is this: is it possible to hide the vista partition in xp and xp partition in vista? I have read about using NeoGrub to hide the Vista partition from XP but I haven't implemented that yet. What I'm looking to do is to be able to have the system partition in each to be the "C" drive and have the other OS partition not being visible. I'm setting this up for my dad and I want him to be able to turn on the computer choose XP or Vista and then have only the files from that OS available. Another issue I wanted to know about was using a single partition for both OSs to store documents and favourites so duplicates won't be needed. Is that possible? Is it a good idea? Sorry about the long message. Thanks in advance for all your help. Bests, Alex -- stillife ------------------------------------------------------------------------ stillife's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/stillife.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/vista-setup-install/1092372.htm http://forums.techarena.in

Re: Dual Boot Vista and XP Pro "Rick Rogers" <rick[ at ]mvps.org> 12/24/2008 12:40:18 AM Hi, The native tools won't allow for hiding the volumes from each other, but a boot manager like BootIT NG will do it. You need one where you can designate which volumes load with each OS instance. There's nothing wrong with setting up a third data volume that is available to each (again, as above this will require the use of a third party boot manager). I frequently do this with multi-boot systems. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com "stillife" <stillife.3kw9vc[ at ]DoNotSpam.com> wrote in message news:stillife.3kw9vc[ at ]DoNotSpam.com... [Quoted Text] > > Hi all, > > I've noticed that there are a lot of threads about dual booting Vista > and XP and I've tried to look through most to find an answer to my > question. However I haven't been able to find any threads talking about > this. I apologize if this is a repeat. > > I have been able to setup both XP and Vista on my computer. I have been > able to boot into either system through Vista BCD following the > tutorials available (eg. 'this one' > (http://vistasupport.mvps.org/install_windows_xp_on_machine_running_vista.htm)). > > > Now my question is this: is it possible to hide the vista partition in > xp and xp partition in vista? I have read about using NeoGrub to hide > the Vista partition from XP but I haven't implemented that yet. What > I'm looking to do is to be able to have the system partition in each to > be the "C" drive and have the other OS partition not being visible. I'm > setting this up for my dad and I want him to be able to turn on the > computer choose XP or Vista and then have only the files from that OS > available. > > Another issue I wanted to know about was using a single partition for > both OSs to store documents and favourites so duplicates won't be > needed. Is that possible? Is it a good idea? > > Sorry about the long message. Thanks in advance for all your help. > > Bests, > Alex > > > -- > stillife > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > stillife's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/stillife.htm > View this thread: > http://forums.techarena.in/vista-setup-install/1092372.htm > > http://forums.techarena.in >

Re: Dual Boot Vista and XP Pro dinesh <guest[ at ]unknown-email.com> 12/24/2008 1:52:24 AM I dont think its possible to hide xp partition in vista and vice-versa. Also, you cannot install 2 OSes in 1 partition. -- dinesh Hope that works ! ! ! Dinesh.

Re: Dual Boot Vista and XP Pro "Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS[ at ]hotmail.com> 12/24/2008 10:58:18 AM Especially note worthy is moving your Documents folder to say partition D: I do this habitually with any computer I work on for two reasons. 1. You can restore the operating system to an earlier point in time and not lose any of your important documents, pictures, music etc. 2. I can access the document folder from both Windows XP and Vista (or any other operating system that I may install). -- Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience "Rick Rogers" <rick[ at ]mvps.org> wrote in message news:%2355DzAWZJHA.652[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] > Hi, > > The native tools won't allow for hiding the volumes from each other, but a > boot manager like BootIT NG will do it. You need one where you can > designate which volumes load with each OS instance. > > There's nothing wrong with setting up a third data volume that is > available to each (again, as above this will require the use of a third > party boot manager). I frequently do this with multi-boot systems. > > -- > Best of Luck, > > Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP > http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ > Windows help - www.rickrogers.org > My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com > > "stillife" <stillife.3kw9vc[ at ]DoNotSpam.com> wrote in message > news:stillife.3kw9vc[ at ]DoNotSpam.com... >> >> Hi all, >> >> I've noticed that there are a lot of threads about dual booting Vista >> and XP and I've tried to look through most to find an answer to my >> question. However I haven't been able to find any threads talking about >> this. I apologize if this is a repeat. >> >> I have been able to setup both XP and Vista on my computer. I have been >> able to boot into either system through Vista BCD following the >> tutorials available (eg. 'this one' >> (http://vistasupport.mvps.org/install_windows_xp_on_machine_running_vista.htm)). >> >> >> Now my question is this: is it possible to hide the vista partition in >> xp and xp partition in vista? I have read about using NeoGrub to hide >> the Vista partition from XP but I haven't implemented that yet. What >> I'm looking to do is to be able to have the system partition in each to >> be the "C" drive and have the other OS partition not being visible. I'm >> setting this up for my dad and I want him to be able to turn on the >> computer choose XP or Vista and then have only the files from that OS >> available. >> >> Another issue I wanted to know about was using a single partition for >> both OSs to store documents and favourites so duplicates won't be >> needed. Is that possible? Is it a good idea? >> >> Sorry about the long message. Thanks in advance for all your help. >> >> Bests, >> Alex >> >> >> -- >> stillife >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> stillife's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/stillife.htm >> View this thread: >> http://forums.techarena.in/vista-setup-install/1092372.htm >> >> http://forums.techarena.in >> >