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Anyone try Vista/XP dual boot?
I have tried the Easy Bcd program, and also Vista Boot Pro, but for some reason can't seem to get it to work. Perhaps I am not understanding exactly how to do it. I hit the F10, get a drive menu and choose the XP drive to boot to XP. If I don't do anything Vista will boot first. If worst comes to worst,

Remove XP from a dual boot with Vista Ultimate
Windows Vista's boot Manager (or winload.exe, I don't know) does not support this feature and there is no documentation regarding this anywhere that I can find. the Hard Drive Boot Order also defines the meaning of "x" in "rdisk(x)" in the boot.ini boot menu file used by the WinNT/2K/XP family of OSes.

Vista boot Stuck on a black screen with a mouse cursor
Colin Barnhorst colinbarha...@msn.com microsoft public windows vista general You won't have a dual boot menu for one thing. Vista may not boot at all. You would need to install Windows XP first, then install Windows Vista on another partition. -- Carey Frisch Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Missing dual boot Vista & XP
Maybe the corresponding Vista entry is already deleted and all you want to do is have no boot menu show at startup? If the pc boots to the correct That is what the file seems to point to but lets try to tell it again and see what happens. bcedit will not be of any use for XP. The Vista boot configuration is

Multi-Boot is not Working, Vista was added to a WXP Pro System
After Installation the system by default went on to boot from XP. The boot menu with the option to boot system with Vista or XP didn’t show up. I then booted the system with Vista recovery disc to recover the system the way it was. When I got to the option to format hard drive I decided not to format it.

problem with dual boot
You can certainly try to do a Startup Repair using the DVD and instructions for doing it are below: You can also use Vista Boot Pro: You cannot start Windows XP after you install Windows Vista in a dual-boot configuration together with Windows XP http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927817/en-us Error message when you

Duel Boot XP & Vista
augustus_meyer augustusme...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista installation_setup It is not for the faint-hearted, howver, I succeeded. Windows Vista uses a new Boot Configuration Database (BCD) store, which contains a boot menu and all the information about operating systems that are

Windows update for Vista and resulting boot issue
I installed it, by booting from the Vista DVD, selecting the new hard drive, formatted it from there, and installed Vista onto it. I do not get a boot menu, now that Vista is up and running showing " Older Version of Windows", and " Microsoft Vista" to choose from. It just automatically boots into XP,

Dual boot and Vista restore points
Summercooln...@gmail.com wrote: I got a new computer (HP Pavilion m7490n) and installed Vista beta 2. After that my Windows XP is not bootable from the boot menu, and even the recovery / restore partition won't boot up either. I wonder is there something i can do to restore the PC to XP?

Anyone try Vista/XP dual boot?
Don don195...@hotmail.com microsoft public windows vista installation_setup Flack wrote: If I set the BIOS to boot from the XP drive and do a "repair installation" of Vista from the DVD (within XP), this will set up the Vista dual boot menu? I can't say if that would work or not, but it sounds more complicated than

Dual Boot XP and Vista
Com microsoft public windows 64bit general Just want to point this out, for persons with Vista questions, please post to the appropriate ng, this newsgroup In boot menu now, I can't get to the Beta2, only x64 and XP-Pro. any way to fix this so I can access the Beta2? If not, can I delete the x64 partition thus

Dual Boot w/XP Home Gone Wrong..........
When I PXE boot the machine I am not getting and boot menu Other than a Vista PE Boot option or RIS option . If I choose The Windows Vista PE Boot option I have sucessfully captured and image of one of my Windows Xp boxes. It was uploaded to the WDS server. Now I am not sure how to use this installation image

Can Vista be installed on top of itsself?
You cannot simply delete/remove/reformat the XP drive (Normal C) - Vista will not boot doing so! Some options: 1. Delete all files on XP drive except for the folder titled Boot, Boot.ini and other XP boot files (Names escape me) - shrink drive to minimum necessary - use unallocated space to extend Vista drive or

If Your Down With VISTA
When my machine boots up I see a boot menu that allows me to choose the system I wish...if I do not choose within 5 seconds it boots to the one that is designated as the default. It could be either one but I have mine set for WinXP...I'm still experimenting with Vista and do most of my work on the XP partition.

Install 32 bit Version of XP Pro after x64
Boot into xp & go through chkdsk. Reboot into vista all ok. The hard drive corruption isnt noticeably affecting the vista install. Now every time I reboot I have to Likely just because the bads that showed up were spared by the format operation. That may well not last for very long, post the Everest SMART report.

Windows XP outshines Vista in benchmarking test
I had copied ntldr and ntdetect.com to my d: root folder, but there it does no good, because it's not the boot drive! Used VistabootPro from inside Vista to modify the boot option menu added another entry labeled "Windows XP". 4. Restarted the computer, and everything worked just as it should. Dual-boot menu

Image Windows XP using WDS
I meant Vista was not for me and removed it from the computer. Thanks for catching that. I played around with the Vista betas, and agree with you. Right now even just having to wait a few secs on the dual-boot menu screen until it defaults to win xp boot seems like too much hassle to justify doing the install,

Vista does not boot (bluescreen)
However, when I chose Windows XP, my computer restarts immediately and goes to the dual boot menu again. Selecting Vista works fine. To summarize: 1. I have Vista on my SATA disc It will boot and say it is on C. XP is not going to boot when it is in a different computer than the one it was originally installed.

How to install WIN98 and WIN98SE on the same hardrive
Per Andre, I installed Vistaboot Pro and used it to remove Vista as if not there, so back to pre-Vista boot and XP works fine. Now I'll start SBS2003 install again On my boot drive I have menu for Vista 5308 , then 'legacy' calls Xp menu - 1=XP on C, 2= old XP on E Vista 5308 is on separate drive (H) right now.

Dual Boot
The first one is for Vista or the legacy OS. Choosing Legacy OS goes to the XP boot loader which presents it's menu. OK, that makes sense - Vista's boot For clarification, MS calls the OS's files that get loaded the "boot files"? And you're NOT referring to ntldr, boot.ini, and ntdetect.com as the "boot files"?