Be aware that there are very many entires in the registry of XP and
separately in the registry for Vista that point to a drive location, such as
C:\...\...\. If you move the contents of the paritions in a way that
changes the drive letters, say C:\ to D:\, then one or both will not work.

"cheen" <cheen@microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:47b5a6fa@newsgate.x-privat.org...
> Hello, I now have XP on my first partition and Vista on my second
> parition...
>
> can I ghost both OS as images and then place Vista on the first partition
> and XP on the second one?
> All this without destroying the apps that are installed on each OS?
>
> I know how to ghost and put the os's back the only question is if changing
> from parition 0 to 1 of XP and Vista from 1 to 0
> will mess things up...
>
> I can fix the bootloader with the vista boot dvd of course so thats not a
> problem.
>
> Some notes:
>
> XP when it runs it "sees" its partion that is the first one as C
> Vista when it runs it "Sees" its partiton that is the second one as C too
>
> dont ask me why I want to do this, I just do! Any tips would be welcome
>
> thanks
>
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