Nice, I'm reading through all the VM stuff now... I may try out the Windows one.
I was thinking about dual booting and I can just change the boot order in the bios, right?
I'd really prefer to have both OS's running at the same time and some way to share files between them. I could run that for a couple weeks to get all the stuff off my old drive that I want to keep.
The reason I want the full OS is that when I run some programs from the D: (old xp drive) I'll need to get the passwords and such from them. I think VM is the way to go for this.