Dual boot question (Vista\XP)

[Totality]

Hi all,

I have Vista Ultimate and am going to dual boot with XP for when XP is needed for compatability.

Vista is on C: and XP will be on D:

Programs will be installed on a seperate drive E:

Question however:

As Vista and XP use different paths for things like Documents And Settings, will I have to install the programs twice? Once under XP and once under Vista? How is it best to have dual boot? Should all the programs for Vista be installed on C: and all the programs for XP be installed on D: basically getting rid of E:

I always have me programs on a seperate disk but cant think how it will work under dual boot If only Vista would work for everything!!

 

[GraemeUK]

Yes you will have to install twice, because of registry entires and shared windows files etc

 

[SpinningMonkey]

Hey Totality, you will have to install programs on xp and then vista separately even if they are the same program.

When you say on a separate drive do you mean a separate partion or an actual serperate hard drive? (Im guessing partion)

Just a quick question , How many hard drives have you got all together and how big are they?