Two operating systems, one library

I'm using iTunes 7.0.2.16 on Windows XP Pro with no problems. I just installed a dual-boot of Windows Vista RC2 for fun, and installed iTunes within Vista as well (in a separate "Program Files" folder, of course) but I can't access the XP iTunes library from the Vista installation of iTunes. I've tried the Shift-key library selection process while starting iTunes, and the library file opens, but there's nothing in it.
After trying this initially in Vista, I went back and confirmed that I can still access the library just fine in XP. The XP library files are not (yet) being overwritten from Vista.
The XP iTunes settings point to D:\Music for its library which consequently means the library files are in D:\Music\iTunes. I've set the Vista iTunes to the same path (D:\Music), and told it to open the "iTunes Library.itl" file manually, but as before I see a blank library.
I don't want to export/import the library from XP to Vista as I want to keep everything in its original XP location - ideally I'd like to be able to access the same library from either OS no matter which one I've booted into.
Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!
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This is difficult to do because one, iTunes isn't capable with Vista yet, even if you enable the "Xp Compatibility mode" (it will only work some of the time!), two, your having two different OS's and iTunes editing one file and so even if you get it to work there might be some corruption.
First, I would change the iTunes Folder in settings (on both XP and Vista) to the folder (normally "iTunes Music")(my settings point to "C:\Documents and Settings\mjd\My Documents\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Music") with all of the artist's folders in it. iTunes will automatically recognize the iTunes library files and attempt to import them.
If that doesn't work I would try copying your initial (XP) iTunes folder to a new place and then trying iTunes within Vista. If the files show up then you know that it isn't a compatibility problem.
Then, if it works, delete that copied folder, THEN delete all of the songs in iTunes (on Vista) and then point iTunes to the old folder and then see if it works.
If the copied folder still shows up as blank then try uninstalling iTunes in Vista and then reinstalling it. IF that doesn't fix the problem, then you will have to wait till Apple makes a Vista compatible iTunes.

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grantmcconnaughey wrote:
Dear community,
     I have a MacBook Pro (mid-2010) with Mac OS Lion. I plan on having this computer all through the rest of college (another two and a half years, hopefully) so I want to upgrade it just a bit. What I would like to do is take out my optical drive, install a second hard drive mount, and put an SSD in that spot. Now, this would be pretty simple if it were just Mac OS Lion that I wanted on it, but here's the catch - I'd like to put my copy of Windows 7 on that drive as well. I currently use one hard drive for Mac/Windows 7 using boot camp, so I figured it'd be possible to do this with 2 hard drives.
     Basically I'd like to put the OSes and a few programs on the SSD, and the files/remaining programs on my big HDD. Is this even possible? Any suggestions?
The SSD should be the boot drive in the present hard drive spot for these reasons.
1: You want the SSD as the boot volume for speed of OS X, Windows and applications (must be on boot drive along with one bare bones user, each OS)
2: You want to inflict as little change to the SSD as possible to make it last longer as they can wear out with a lot of use, thus a boot/app drive is ideal for this.
3: Present hard drive becomes the exFAT formatted drive to use for Windows or Mac file storage use in the optical bay caddy.
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Should make a copy of that 10.6 disk
http://www.walterjessen.com/make-a-bootable-backup-snow-leopard-install-disc/
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