Dual boot issues

[doubledragon5]

I had to reinstall XP on one of my two hd (sig) I have vista on the other.. I followed this trick http://apcstart.com/5485/dualbooting_vista_and_xp and I still can't get vista to load. According to the instructions when I finish the repair of vista and reboot the machine will boot to vista then I would follow the rest of the directions to once again dual boot xp and vista.. When I reboot Xp boots up and nos vista at all.. Am I doing something wrong..

[ski]

That link is for installing XP and Vista on the same HD. Is that what you're trying to do? Or are you installing XP and Vista on separate HD's?

[doubledragon5]

Was installing on a seperate drive.. What i ended up doing is just reinstalling Vista as well. All is well..

[Brothersoft]

Well, try VistaBootPro, it can organize your boot configuration entries from within all flavors of Windows, and recover your boot menu probably. It's free.

[Dia]

I dont use Vista yet waiting for more patches to come out and a little bit of a price drop on Ultimate before I get it (as well as more games using DX10). But anyways heres how I did my XP/2000 Dual boot on one sata drive.

Make two primary partitions, put the newer version first then the older version, one per partition. You should then get the dual boot option once all this is completed. If not go into whichever OS you can get into, right click my computer then select properties to get into system properties.

Select the advanced tab, click start up and recovery, then click the edit button to manually configure the boot.ini file.

[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional"

This line right here is what you want to change around. change the partition number to the primary OS you want to use and if you want to change what it displays on the dual boot config you can change that after the windows="Primary boot windows"

I dont know how much of a change there is between vista and the dual boot i did but this is the way I do it and where I look to make changes on how my dual boot works.

Hope this helps

[glc]

The standard procedure is older version first, Dia. This doesn't require any boot.ini modification, everything takes care of itself.