Windows Vista Multiboot Windows XP & Vista - maintain C:\ for each

You have to install Vista by booting the computer from the Vista DVD, if you start the install from inside XP then Vista will not be given the C: drive letter. Doing things the Microsoft way will of course mean that Vista’s boot files will be placed inside the XP install. Also, every time you boot into XP all of Vista’s restore points will de deleted. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926185

 

Your Welcome GLou, and

Thanks McTavish for that very important piece of info that I left out. GLou, as McTavish advised, that is what I did. After I created the new partition for Vista, I installed Vista from a clean boot, not from inside xp. I think you know at that point Vista will ask which partition you would like to install it on. Just choose the newly created primary partition.

Good Luck!
Tarheelfan001