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Can I install SBS on old drive ? ( if Vista Boot loader is ...
Anybody know what I need to do to get the boot manager working? I also can't get Vista to recognize my 4gigs of RAM. I have an Asus A8N32-SLI deluxe MB which according to the manual says I can use a max of 4gigs. Vista only recognizes 2.5 which is what XP recognized as well. I'm not sure what else to do to get the

Installed Vista dual boot, think I screwed up!
I have a new laptop (Dell Inspiron E1705) that came with Vista. I am sure Vista will be great one day but for now, I want/need XP. If the boot menu does not show a CD/DVD drive as a boot device, you'll have to go into the BIOS setup (which should be an available option at the bottom of the boot menu) to enable

Dual Boot - - XP with 98SE, or Vista with 98SE
XP is my Disk 1 and Vista is my Disk 3 (I have another games disk which is disk2). I've not had any issues since RC1 with dual booting. My only advice I can offer is to Then it always boots to Vista. How can I have access to both without using the install disc everytime? Can I set up a boot menu? If so how? Thanks.

XP on Pre-installed Vista
I did not test the single boot configuration, saw some reports of people who did and claimed that it worked. The drawback of a single boot configuration is that with dual boot you can boot into XP, perform the necessary work around on Vista and then boot into Vista. In single boot you depend completely on the Vista

Recovered my XP install... still one problem. (Vista testers ...
If the first drive is XP in the bios, by default it will boot into XP without requests. If you want Vista then you must use the boot menu. Vista bootmngr when used with XP can be a real hassle. Because if you decide to get rid of Vista Xp will not boot anymore if Vista was using botmngr for both drives.

Image Windows XP using WDS
I am not sure why Vista Boot Pro could not help you out. I suspect somehow, although others might have a different theory, that you overwrote the XP MBR--and I would have So I installed Vista onto a different partition and afterwards I didn't' get the boot menu so that I could dual boot between the two OSs.

Can I install SBS on old drive ? ( if Vista Boot loader is ...
I was able, with one more clic, to boot XP. - BUT after upgrading to Premium from Windows Live (it took hours) the switching feature did not work any more, .... When the system reboots it won’t bring up a boot menu. Although XP recognises the Vista partition it doesn’t recognise Vista itself.

Got problem with Dual Boot XP and Vista....
I wound up not doing it exactly as I had outlined, but I thought it should work anyway. I installed Vista (Home Premium) on the first partition of a 5 partition drive. All went well. I then installed XP Home on the second partition. That went well too. But the XP installation didn't create a boot menu as I expected

Vista dual boot
John Barnes jbar...@email.net microsoft public windows vista installation_setup Probably your best bet is to copy the ntldr ntdetect.com and boot.ini files to the wrote in message news:tipsymonkey.2wcdi0@no-mx.forums.net... when i get to the dual boot menu and i try and select windows xp if its it can not boot.

Multiboot does not wok
Now the message disappears, but my PC instantly reboots when I try to boot the WinXP installation. However, I found out that when choosing "Boot from secondary SATA drive" in the BIOS menu, I am able to boot my old XP installation fine. How do I configure the Vista bootloader to be able to detect and boot from my

Installed Vista dual boot, think I screwed up!
While in the playground, Vista was installed in Dell Inspiron 8600 using an external USB 2.0 disk drive, and it worked really fine keeping Windows XP on my primary partition and creating a lovely dual-boot menu to choose between Vista and XP, or my Legacy Pre-Longhorn Operating System as they called it.

Install 32 bit Version of XP Pro after x64
Vista changed to a new system, called BCD for Boot Configuration Data. Let's not get into that here, except to say that Vista Setup knows how to handle one or more existing The system now has both XP 64 bit and 32 bit installed in that order with an XP boot menu. The system boots to either operating system.

install Vista PR1 and be able to boot to XP
Finally I have as it defaults too my "Vista" from a clean install over the XP (which went like a jewel by the way and I'm very pleased with it too). But I want to remove all the menu choices except for my only real option to boot into which is the "Vista". BCDEDIT is not straight forward like a boot.ini file.

Re-install XP on a dual boot XP/Vista PC
You can install Vista on C: and then installed XP on D (or XP on C: and Vista on D:) it doesn't really matter. What 'does' matter is that the boot option files are located on the C: drive. You will need to unhide the system files so go to Windows Explorer and click the Organize button. From the menu click the

Installed Vista dual boot, think I screwed up!
Before that iirc, I have also seen the rollback option either in the boot menu (when pressing F8 for more options) or when booting from the vista DVD. I'm not completely sure where the rollback option can be found. But in any case, the rollback worked well. Once I was back in XP, I was able to uninstall ZoneAlarm

dual booting vista & xp
Paul Schumacher pds...@cfl.rr.com microsoft public windows vista general Thanks for the reply. I am not sure that I made myself clear. I do not have a second instance of XP on my machine. Only Vista as the primary OS and XP on a second drive that will not boot from the boot menu at startup.

Boot problem
If you install a version of Windows that pre-dates Vista (eg XP), the Vista boot menu will be disabled and you won't be able to boot to Vista. This is the reason a lot of people say to install the oldest OS first - it avoids this kind of issue. Actually, with the new boot process in Vista, this should not be a

Duel Boot XP & Vista
After the installation of Vista, a boot menu gave me the choice which OS to start. I re-installed XP, first by deleting the partion and than by booting w/ the installation CD of Win XP Home. When re-booting after the re-install of Win XP, the bootmenu was gone so I could not longer start up Vista.

Multiboot Troubleshooting tips
I have used both boot templates (boot.wim) from Vista Business and Longhorn Beta 3 Media. I did not create a discover image this time; instead I first uploaded I chose the XP Boot Image on the menu and it took a few minutes before the prompt was displayed asking me about a keyboard layout and language default.

The nitty gritty of XP boot loaders (VERY LONG!)
From what I read it should have placed the Vista boot files on the First Boot Drive (XPs RAID disks) and included included Vista in the boot menu but that You should be able to install Vista on The "root partition" of C, drive. THEN you can install XP on a different partition and it does not have to be C. I