Dual boot question

Hi, I currently have WinXP installed on drive C:\, installed programs
on drive D:\ and data on drive E:\.
I want to install Vista and dual boot with XP.
Will the new Vista partition become D:\ by default, so breaking the
current registry links between XP and it's programs?
If I were to use something like "BootIt NG" which is said to
selectively hide partitions, will I be able to produce a situation
where both Vista and XP are nominally on drive C:\ and both are able
to have their associated programs on drive D:\?

Hi,

Regardless of what drive letter Vista assigns itself, which is normally C:\,
it only applies when Vista is loaded. If you boot back to XP, the drive
letters and associations there should remain unchanged from their current
state.

BootIT NG does allow you to hide volumes from a booted OS fairly easily, and
personally I would recommend it as booting into XP without the Vista volume
hidden from it will cause the loss of all of Vista's system restore points
(this is a known issue).

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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

<treenoakio@googlemail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi, I currently have WinXP installed on drive C:\, installed programs
> on drive D:\ and data on drive E:\.
> I want to install Vista and dual boot with XP.
> Will the new Vista partition become D:\ by default, so breaking the
> current registry links between XP and it's programs?
> If I were to use something like "BootIt NG" which is said to
> selectively hide partitions, will I be able to produce a situation
> where both Vista and XP are nominally on drive C:\ and both are able
> to have their associated programs on drive D:\?