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Get Started with
Windows Vista
Of operating systems and filesystems
When setting up a dual-boot system for day-to-day use, you??™ll need to consider
the matter of sharing files between your operating systems.
In order to share files between operating systems, both partitions must use
filesystems supported by at least one OS. For instance, if you have a dualboot
setup with both Windows Vista and Windows 98, you??™ll be able to see
both drives while you??™re in Vista, but you??™ll only be able to see the 98 drive
while 98 is running. (Although Vista can read drives formatted with the
FAT32 filesystem, it can??™t be installed on one.) See Chapter 5 for details.
Now, if both your partitions use the NTFS filesystem??”which is what you??™d
likely get if you set up a dual-boot system with Vista and XP??”you also may
have ownership problems to contend with. As explained in Chapter 8, every
file and folder on your PC has an ???owner,??? a user tied to a specific account on
your PC. If, for instance, you create a file in Windows XP and then attempt to
modify it in Vista, you may be denied permission until you ???take ownership,???
as explained in ???Protect Your Files with Encryption??? in Chapter 8.
And in regards to protecting your data, encryption is also effective at preventing
an intruder from reading your files by installing a second operating
system on your PC.
Figure 1-3. The Boot tab of the System Configuration tool provides most of the features
of BCDEdit in a much more pleasant interface
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Migration to Windows Vista
Migration is typically a term used by system administrators to describe the
lengthy process of upgrading some or all the computers in an organization
to a new software product, but nearly all of the issues apply to anyone
upgrading to Windows Vista from an earlier version.
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