Before I mess up a dual boot......

I have XP and Vista on 2 separate hard drives. Seems I may have a sneaky
virus on the XP side and I don't trust that the scans got everything so I
want to reinstall
XP. Since it's best to have XP installed before installing Vista, can I
reformat and reinstall XP on that same drive again without it messing the
boot? Meaning, will Vista's bootloader be changed or will it just see the
XP
boot info and not even know it was reinstalled?
Thanks

Hi Paul,

Reinstalling XP will overwrite the Vista bootloader on the active partition.
Once the XP install is completed, you will have to recover the Vista
bootloader by booting the Vista DVD and running a startup repair.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Paul" <> wrote in message
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>I have XP and Vista on 2 separate hard drives. Seems I may have a sneaky
> virus on the XP side and I don't trust that the scans got everything so I
> want to reinstall
> XP. Since it's best to have XP installed before installing Vista, can I
> reformat and reinstall XP on that same drive again without it messing the
> boot? Meaning, will Vista's bootloader be changed or will it just see the
> XP
> boot info and not even know it was reinstalled?
> Thanks
>

Thanks for the quick reply Rick. I figured as much. Then I'll fine tune
the boot menu with Easy BCD or VistaBootPro.

Paul

"Rick Rogers" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hi Paul,
>
> Reinstalling XP will overwrite the Vista bootloader on the active
> partition. Once the XP install is completed, you will have to recover the
> Vista bootloader by booting the Vista DVD and running a startup repair.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>
> "Paul" <> wrote in message
> news:71058EF6-E3F1-424F-8654-...
>>I have XP and Vista on 2 separate hard drives. Seems I may have a sneaky
>> virus on the XP side and I don't trust that the scans got everything so I
>> want to reinstall
>> XP. Since it's best to have XP installed before installing Vista, can I
>> reformat and reinstall XP on that same drive again without it messing the
>> boot? Meaning, will Vista's bootloader be changed or will it just see
>> the XP
>> boot info and not even know it was reinstalled?
>> Thanks
>>
>