Kyle -- I think you can fix your boot situation using this: If you have to format to try again, vista will allow you to run setup in XP and keep your drive letters or run setup from a restart and change the drive letters but it will create a reliable dual boot. You have your space, so once you install Vista if you went to a new build you can use Disk Management from XP to format your Vista...

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=334

MSFT Hot Fix and Hot Issue Center http://blogs.technet.com/hot/archive/2007/12/10/welcome-to-microsoft-hot-fix-and-hot-issue-center.aspx "Welcome to Microsoft Hot Fix and Hot Issue Center Thank you for checking Microsoft Hot Fix and Hot Issue Center. My team, content team, handles all the hot-fix related knowleadge base articles for almost all Microsoft product, such as Windows XP/Server...

Master Windows Vista Just Like the Experts! http://tinyurl.com/28yfmh Enjoy, CH Alfredo Mooooooooo Kasey is at da bat and you're being wiretapped with Telco Immunity passed by spinless Democrats Feinstein and Shmendrick Schumer next

I've found endless threads on this but nothing definitive. If this can be done, by now I'm sure someone has the way. I couldn't get it done. CH

Also: http://www.edbott.com/weblog/ CH "Chad Harris" vistaneedsmuchowork.net wrote in message ... Here's one answer to the MSFT IE team's refusal to fix crashes that happen

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/ CH "Chad Harris" vistaneedsmuchowork.net wrote in message ... Here's one answer to the MSFT IE team's refusal to fix crashes that happen frequently with Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia): Use Safari on Vista:

WGA Blog Reported OEM BIOS Hacks http://blogs.msdn.com/wga/archive/2007/04/10/reported-oem-bios-hacks.aspx CH

Brian Livingston has a new trick: Microsoft has built into Vista a function that allows anyone to extend the operating system's activation deadline not just three times, but many times. The same one-line command that postpones Vista's activation deadline to 120 days can be used an indefinite number of times by first changing a Registry key from 0 to 1. This isn't a hacker exploit. It...

From Nick White's Vista Team Blog: KB 932616: Installation choices for consumer versions of Windows Vista (32-bit only) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932616 KB 932795: Installation choices for 64-bit consumer versions of Windows Vista http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932795/

Ed Bott's Microsoft Report Vista Hands On #4: Clean install with an upgrade key February 15th, 2007 http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=196#more-196 I've been reading the breathless reports from other websites this week about the "Vista upgrade loophole." Most of it is typical echo-chamber stuff, and most of the reports I've read so far have gotten the basic facts wrong. The Setup feature they're...

LOL Robert-- For what I assume is a grown man's body, you pack a lot of epithets you should have left on the elementary school cutting room floor. You're prime time proof of the Wordsworth and Hopkins observations that "The Child is father of the man." The only fluff and bluster and trajectory down fast is your syncophantic feined outrage. Are you a closet Redmon softie?

LOL Robert-- For what I assume is a grown man's body, you pack a lot of epithets you should have left on the elementary school cutting room floor. You're prime time proof of the Wordsworth and Hopkins observations that "The Child is father of the man." The only fluff and bluster and trajectory down fast is your syncophantic feined outrage. Are you a closet Redmon softie?

LOL Robert-- For what I assume is a grown man's body, you pack a lot of epithets you should have left on the elementary school cutting room floor. You're prime time proof of the Wordsworth and Hopkins observations that "The Child is father of the man." The only fluff and bluster and trajectory down fast is your syncophantic feined outrage. Are you a closet Redmon softie?

LOL Robert-- For what I assume is a grown man's body, you pack a lot of epithets you should have left on the elementary school cutting room floor. You're prime time proof of the Wordsworth and Hopkins observations that "The Child is father of the man." The only fluff and bluster and trajectory down fast is your syncophantic feined outrage. Are you a closet Redmon softie?

LOL Robert-- For what I assume is a grown man's body, you pack a lot of epithets you should have left on the elementary school cutting room floor. You're prime time proof of the Wordsworth and Hopkins observations that "The Child is father of the man." The only fluff and bluster and trajectory down fast is your syncophantic feined outrage. Are you a closet Redmon softie?

LOL Robert-- For what I assume is a grown man's body, you pack a lot of epithets you should have left on the elementary school cutting room floor. You're prime time proof of the Wordsworth and Hopkins observations that "The Child is father of the man." The only fluff and bluster and trajectory down fast is your syncophantic feined outrage. Are you a closet Redmon softie?

Vista RC1 what Beta 2 or I'd say Beta 1 should have been (in other words Vista RTM is really what Beta 1 should have been in my book) Josh's blog http://windowsconnected.com/blogs/joshs_blog/archive/2006/09/06/3672.aspx Inside RC1 http://windowsconnected.com/blogs/joshs_blog/archive/2006/09/06/3672.aspx Vista RC1 So Near and Yet so Far

Bill Gates is being interviewed live on Charlie Rose @12:30AM Eastern and 3 Hours Later Pacific for an hour on what's coming next and perspective from past. CH

I figure that since millions of Windows 7 installations on the CPP have been made, not to mention tap build s and tech beta builds, that it is appropriate to ask this question since a) It involves a former Vista on a dual boot b) MSFT has seen fit to put only one NNTP public group up for Win 7 and it is an Italian one and I don't speak Italian or even drive a Ferrari or Lamborghini or Maserati ...