Dual booting xp and vista

[Alfie]

I recently purchased Vista as it comes with the Windows 7 coupon.
I'm currently using XP.
I also purchased a new motherboard,cpu,hard drive and video card.
The questions I have are:
Should I install the new hardware and then do a repair install of XP?
Once XP is put straight,then install Vista on the new hard drive and dual boot would be enabled?
What procedure should I follow?

[EzyStvy]

I would do a fresh install with new hardware....

But yes, a repair install will mostly work...AND, you need another partition or drive for Vista.

[Alfie]

I have a new drive,so Vista would go on that.
I would rather do the repair,so not to lose data,etc.
So I should install the hardware do a repair on XP,then install Vista on the new drive and dual boot would be enabled,is this correct?

[EzyStvy]

Yeppers.

How to replace the motherboard on a computer that is running Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, or Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/824125

[Alfie]

Thanks for the link and advise,will let you know how it goes.
The new computer is more of a furnace than a computer,so once I get the cooling figured out,I'll proceed

[MikeMoss]

Hi

I've posted this before but I find this really works well and use it all the time.

Create a new User ID.

Reboot in it.

Turn off all startup items and system startup items that are not essential.

Reboot to this ID again.

Start the Windows repair install from within this ID.

Widows will restart and replace the Windows files giving you a virtually clean install.

The advantage of doing this is that you can still log in to your old user ID and have access to all of you stuff. Email address books favorites anything that you need. Nothing will be lost, but you will not bring errors and not needed settings into your new installation.

It will boot and run like a new install and you can still recover the data that you need.
Most of your software will still run without reinstall, I usually have a few programs that need to be reinstalled but that's it.

It really works!

I discovered this when I had a problem that still persisted after several repair installs and I didn't want to have to backup everything on my computer and do it from scratch. I figured that this would remove whatever was causing the reoccurring error and it worked.

Mike