Hi all.

Last night I installed XP and Vista on a clean hard drive.  I intalled XP first, 
then Vista, as recommended by the interweb.

Everything worked swimmingly, except for one thing: after I installed and booted 
Vista for the first time, when I went back to XP, I got a warning at startup that 
said "one of your disks needs to be checked for consistency."  It then ran a check 
and told me it fixed several things, and then XP started fine.  Subsequent XP reboots 
went fine, with no errors or warnings.

But every time I boot Vista and then go back to XP, I get the same warning.  It was 
late when I got to this point, and I must confess that I'm not even sure which partition 
-- Vista or XP -- it was checking.  I assumed it was XP, but didn't think to check.

Has anyone seen this before?  I'd appreciate any thoughts, as I'd like to get this 
cleaned up before I continue with the installations.

Thanks.

Jim

Relevant info: Vista 64 bit, XP Pro (very old CD, probably not even SP1).  Both OSes 
are completely unpatched at the moment; I installed only what was on the CDs, and 
haven't run Windows update on either of them.  The hard drive is a brand new Seagate 
SATA-II 250GB, partitioned into 50GB for XP at the front, and 200GB for Vista the 
back.

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