There seems to be a serious problem Microsoft has yet to address when dual-booting between Windows Vista and Windows XP. Specifically, when XP boots, it mounts any connected drives and checks for System Restore information. XP automatically assumes Vista restore points are corrupt and will delete Vista’s restore points and shadow copies. Officially, Microsoft’s only recommendation to turn off Vista drives until XP has completed booting. Sounds, like useless advice to me.
At Microsoft, one good turn deserves another; Vista’s Complete Backup solution copies the whole drive. That means there’s the potential to overwrite a current XP partition with an out of date backup.
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