[Eclipse9069]

Okay, I'm new here so first of all I would like to say a big hello.

Anyways, I just picked up Windows Vista Business 'N,' and I am ready to install it. However, I am wanting to dual-boot between Vista and XP.
Now, my Windows XP is on my 15 Gig partition, it's just Windows XP and it's files. On my 60 gig partition, there are all my videos, movies, photos, mp3's, games, etc and I have about 11 gigs left on it.

Now, what I am asking is if I install Vista on my 60 gig partition, will it format that partition and get rid of everything I have on that partition, or will it just install Vista there and leave the files that are already there alone?

Thanks in advance.

P.S., please do not tell me to buy a second hard drive to install Vista on to, because if I wanted to, I would have done that.

[spdabbs]

IIRC, it will only format the partition if you tell it to.

[Bob Cerelli]

Have you backed up any important data files? Even the best of intentions can have problems.

[Rich-M]

I was pleasantly surprised that when I formatted for clean install, the Vista install saved everything on the hard drive in a folder called "old Windows". I did not expect that nor did I pay enough attention to see if maybe I selected something in error or it even told me that it would do that, however as Bib suggests, you can never backup enough when starting new projects.