I'm about to try a dual boot as I want to run an older Cannon Professional camera (EOS 1Ds Mk 1) which reqyires Firewwire and which does not offer drivers beyond XP. I've tried VitualBox, VMWare, Virtual PC, etc but they do not supprt external firewire connections evn though it is an open IEEE standard.

My question is, given I have a C drive and a D drive partitioned on the disk, the D being where the OS recovery data is so I do not have a seperate Vista disk, it is all held there (it's a Dell Studio 1735 laptop), any hints or warnings before i start?