*Sonic*

Dont really want to format my hard drive, and dont have a spare pc to use at the moment

I know I can upgrade from XP to Vista, but does anyone know if I can uninstall, ie roll back to XP, or install it as a dual boot so I can play around with it

S

lightning101

You can but its a proper nightmare to do with one drive even with partition magic.

It would be better to borrow a small drive and do a seperate install and bios change the boot at startup IMO

*Sonic*

Hmm, I might just try it on my w**k laptop then, and upgrade XP

If it goes t*ts up Ill just have to rebuild it with XP again, give me something to do in the day

Hanley

Why not use VMWare

Iain Young

Speed?

*Sonic*

Hadnt really thought of vmware, but yes speed and memory would be the main issues with that, and not sure if Vista is supported under vmware at the moment

boxst

Hello

I got the Beta Candidate 2 to work under VMWare, but the RC1 just crashes on install.

Steve

Markus

From what I've read Vista has a different boot loader setup from XP, it seems to ingore the boot.ini file, it's been replaced with some BOOT folder at the root of the disk.

So you could probably get both running on the same partition, but if you then remove Vista it's a bit of a pain to get things back to normal

andys

Yep as MArkus says its a real pain. Ended up loosing my main XP drive this way

*Sonic*

Well Im going to just install it over the top of my XP install, and if it goes t*ts ill just rebuild it back with XP

Its a Tablet PC, and beta 2 was fine on another one the same as this, so it 'should' be ok