safe install my partial keep xp running

Hi, I have two partials (C and D) as my C drive only had 10GB space and my D 153GB space, can i install Vista on my D Drive safely and keep my XP system on my PC running if i want to?
Kenny

Yes, no problems, just make sure you launch setup from within Windows XP, type in your Product Key > accept EULA > when the Custom option is made available, click it > select the partition you created for Vista > Next. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
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Hi, I have two partials (C and D) as my C drive only had 10GB space and my D 153GB space, can i install Vista on my D Drive safely and keep my XP system on my PC running if i want to?
Kenny

ok well, because on the download page they say that windows XP is not for use anymore once you install the Vista Beta and i need to re-install XP if i want it back again..???
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:

Yes, no problems, just make sure you launch setup from within Windows XP, type in your Product Key > accept EULA > when the Custom option is made available, click it > select the partition you created for Vista > Next. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Kenny" wrote in message Hi, I have two partials (C and D) as my C drive only had 10GB space and my D 153GB space, can i install Vista on my D Drive safely and keep my XP system on my PC running if i want to?
Kenny

That is if you install Vista on the drive XP is installed, once both operating systems are on separate paritions or drives, there is no problems, you boot into either without problems. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Kenny" wrote in message

ok well, because on the download page they say that windows XP is not for use anymore once you install the Vista Beta and i need to re-install XP if i want it back again..???
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:
Yes, no problems, just make sure you launch setup from within Windows XP, type in your Product Key > accept EULA > when the Custom option is made available, click it > select the partition you created for Vista > Next. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Kenny" wrote in message Hi, I have two partials (C and D) as my C drive only had 10GB space and my D 153GB space, can i install Vista on my D Drive safely and keep my XP system on my PC running if i want to?
Kenny

I had a follow up as my situation is somewhat similar....
I had (notice past tense) my Windows XP split between C: and D:; c: contained the OS and d: contained user documents. During the install I selected d: as I didn't want to blow away my XP.
However, Vista renamed all the XP "Documents and Settings" to have a .old extension. Now when I log in to XP, it complains that it can't find my desktop directory, et al. Any options here? Can I change the path in the registry (of the XP installation) to point to the new ".old" directories?
Thanks Sri
"Kenny" wrote:

ok well, because on the download page they say that windows XP is not for use anymore once you install the Vista Beta and i need to re-install XP if i want it back again..???
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:
Yes, no problems, just make sure you launch setup from within Windows XP, type in your Product Key > accept EULA > when the Custom option is made available, click it > select the partition you created for Vista > Next. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Kenny" wrote in message Hi, I have two partials (C and D) as my C drive only had 10GB space and my D 153GB space, can i install Vista on my D Drive safely and keep my XP system on my PC running if i want to?
Kenny

Or you could manually change each one back to what they were and leave the registry alone. I mean, hasn't it suffered enough?
"sri" wrote:

I had a follow up as my situation is somewhat similar....
I had (notice past tense) my Windows XP split between C: and D:; c: contained the OS and d: contained user documents. During the install I selected d: as I didn't want to blow away my XP.
However, Vista renamed all the XP "Documents and Settings" to have a .old extension. Now when I log in to XP, it complains that it can't find my desktop directory, et al. Any options here? Can I change the path in the registry (of the XP installation) to point to the new ".old" directories?
Thanks Sri