Sigh...Been to that Movie...
GlennGlenn,
Here is a bit of information that you might want to have at your fingertips.
I chose the same concept. I put Vista on a discrete drive and set up a dual boot system, so that I could go to either OS whenever I wanted to. Vista, no matter what you do, unless it is to physically remove your other boot drive..say it is C: and you are putting Vista on D: which is a totally separate drive, not a separate partition on the drive will alter C: drive and change the file system that you have in place.
I would HIGHLY recommend physically pulling your XP drive out of the PC when you set up/install Vista. That is the only way that your original OS will not become victimized by that evil beast that goes by the name of Vista. Moreover, you won't have to boot into Vista to edit the bootsector :eek: :eek: using the Vista utility called bcdedit.exe
I would hate to see you fall into the same trap that I did, that being when I decided to uninstall Vista off the discrete drive, that it totally hosed my XP installation.
Good luck.
Dabiggdogg aka Phil