Separate XP/Vista Installation on one drive

[ThomasKMC]

There is plenty of information out there about how to set up a dual-boot with XP and Vista. The result is that XP sees the Vista partition and vice versa. That's not what I want. I want two comletely independent installations of either OS; XP should not see the Vista install, and Vista should not see XP. Using a boot manager such as OSL2000 or Acronis Boot Manager may come in handy. But I have not found any information about this type of installation. With XP installed already, I tried hiding the XP partition and then booted from the Vista DVD but this didn't work. Any ideas?

 

[Nothinman]

Hiding partitions is always a "cross your fingers and hope" sort of thing because all most of those tools do is change the partition type and hope the OS doesn't look any further.

If you don't want to play games in one of the OSes just install it in VMWare and use that. Dual booting really sucks anyway.

 

[wiin]

is this what oyu're looking for: Hidden partition / true hidden partition


:How To Hide Drive Partition

Originally posted by: ThomasKMC
There is plenty of information out there about how to set up a dual-boot with XP and Vista. The result is that XP sees the Vista partition and vice versa. That's not what I want. I want two comletely independent installations of either OS; XP should not see the Vista install, and Vista should not see XP. Using a boot manager such as OSL2000 or Acronis Boot Manager may come in handy. But I have not found any information about this type of installation. With XP installed already, I tried hiding the XP partition and then booted from the Vista DVD but this didn't work. Any ideas?

 

[ThomasKMC]

wiin, i checked out your link. sounds interesting enough to try it out. thanks for your help.