Duel Boot XP & Vista - What Next Question

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Duel Boot XP & Vista - What Next Question

#1 Post by winesmile » Fri May 04, 2007 6:24 pm

So thanks to this and other forums I was able to complete a duel boot situation - I've never done that before.

I initially Installed Vista Ultimate over XP-Pro a few months ago and haven't liked the way it performed.

So, I reconfigured my system back to factory specs and XP-Pro.
Partitioned C: to a 3rd drive (V:) for Vista.
Installed Vista on that drive.

Everything worked fine.

Question is - I only have my Lenovo software, drivers, managers, etc. on the "first" XP-Pro side (C:) and my Vista partition has none (kinda nice actually... But I need the Lenovo stuff).

How do I get Lenovo over to the Vista partition?
Is there a way to share certain programs (Norton) on both partitions without having to intall them on each partion??

Thanks!

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Re: Duel Boot XP & Vista - What Next Question

#2 Post by Temetka » Fri May 04, 2007 10:57 pm

winesmile wrote:
Question is - I only have my Lenovo software, drivers, managers, etc. on the "first" XP-Pro side (C:) and my Vista partition has none (kinda nice actually... But I need the Lenovo stuff).

How do I get Lenovo over to the Vista partition?
Is there a way to share certain programs (Norton) on both partitions without having to intall them on each partion??

Thanks!
Short answer:

no.

Just download software installer for Vista. that should take care of your problems.
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