I've recently downloaded the latest vista rc1 I could find, and had a question.
I have read through many of the threads here with the problems people are having with dual boot xp\vista systems on the same physical drive. Currently I have 2 drives. One, C, 80 gig. The other is 200 gig with 6 partitions. I keep all my vids, pics, docs on this one as a back up. Would I be safe to install vista on the second drive in a 20 gig, formated, ntfs file system? Would I run into boot problems if Vista was on the second drive with a drive letter like J:? I figured that if I decided to delete Vista, I would only have to reformat that partition, and my other partitions would be untouched,... right? Then I would be able to boot xp normally, no?
Anyone who has any advice or experience with this scenario, I welcome your feedback, as I am anxious to see what Vista is capable of.
If this is not at all safe to do on a primary machine, then I guess I'll try to install on my older pc, but I would have to do some work on it first. So I'm willing to take a small risk with this pc, but only if I can be assured that doing it this way will prevent any of my data on either drive from being corrupted.
Thanks,
Chris
