You would really need to partition the drive into at least 2 drives, and
configure each partition as the boot for each version of windows.

If you did not I would perhaps consider it insane. I don't think you can
actually do 2 windows installs onto the same partition, without the
second overwriting the first install.

I have this exact configuration at home.

Really depends on how big your drive is, I would suggest 160GB min for 2
drives. I.e at least 80gb or more on one partition.

Myles.


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>Hi,
>
>     I have to purchase a new laptop and although I'm reluctant to
purchase
> Vista with it there are some Vista features I wish to use in its
secondary
> role in my home theatre.  I am considering purchasing another XP-Pro
> license and arranging for it to be bootable to either OS.
>
> Is this a sane option, considering it only has one drive?

Cheers

    Colin

Colin R Dillicar
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