vista install question

Have a question about the Beta 2 public preview.
Have seen people here saying that you can install it as a Dual boot with your current XP system. However the MS beta preview page says it can only be installed Clean or as an upgrade to XP. Dual boot is not mentioned as an option.
Is Dual boot an option??? I do not want to hose my current XP install. I have 3 other hard drives in my system and would love to install it to one of those drives as a dual boot to XP if it is actually possible to install it as a dual boot. Does it give you that option when you run the setup?
SO...Can anyone tell for sure that you can defenitely install Vista as a dual boot?
Thanks!

Dual boot is an option - the beta teams would rather you upgrade from XPSP2 as they want to see how the upgrade process goes - however that's only for the daring type ;o)
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Have a question about the Beta 2 public preview.
Have seen people here saying that you can install it as a Dual boot with your current XP system. However the MS beta preview page says it can only be installed Clean or as an upgrade to XP. Dual boot is not mentioned as an option.
Is Dual boot an option??? I do not want to hose my current XP install. I have 3 other hard drives in my system and would love to install it to one of those drives as a dual boot to XP if it is actually possible to install it as a dual boot. Does it give you that option when you run the setup?
SO...Can anyone tell for sure that you can defenitely install Vista as a dual boot?
Thanks!

I'm pretty sure if you have another partition you want to install Vista on you should be able to do a custom install and select that partition.

Have a question about the Beta 2 public preview.
Have seen people here saying that you can install it as a Dual boot with your current XP system. However the MS beta preview page says it can only be installed Clean or as an upgrade to XP. Dual boot is not mentioned as an option.
Is Dual boot an option??? I do not want to hose my current XP install. I have 3 other hard drives in my system and would love to install it to one of those drives as a dual boot to XP if it is actually possible to install it as a dual boot. Does it give you that option when you run the setup?
SO...Can anyone tell for sure that you can defenitely install Vista as a dual boot?
Thanks!

Les Herrman wrote:

Have a question about the Beta 2 public preview.
Have seen people here saying that you can install it as a Dual boot with your current XP system. However the MS beta preview page says it can only be installed Clean or as an upgrade to XP. Dual boot is not mentioned as an option.
Well, realize that installing on an empty drive on a partition other

than your XP partition, IS a "Clean" install. That particular type of "Clean" install will give you a dual-boot installation. It works quite well. "Dual boot" and "Clean install" are most definitely not mutually exclusive.

ok i go to install vista and i type in product key and all that works fine but when i go to custom install there is nothing to install to. no partition or anything? and i dont know why it is doing that so thought i would ask for help thx.

ok i go and install vista and its working fine i type in product key and everything but when i click custom install and decide where to install to there is nothing there. no choices or anything? so any ideals why this is happenin? thx