dual boot WinXP & Vista with GAG 4.8

Because I want Vista and WinXP isolate from each other, I use GAG 4.8 (
http://gag.sourceforge.net/) instead of MS boot mamanger. My PC's hard
drive configuration on my Gigabyte 965P-DS3 motherboard:
disk 1: WinXP
disk 2: Primary partition for data
disk 3: Vista

I can boot to WinXP if I set disk 1 as the first boot disk from BIOS. If
I change the BIOS setting to boot from disk 3, Vista start up.

With GAG, I can't boot to Vista whether I enable swap drive or not. Any
suggestions? If I set to no drive swap, I got a blank screen and hang.
If I enable drive swap, I hot "no bootmgr. press ctrl-alt-del...) message.

Why you need a boot manager?
I have 3 partitions myself :
Partition 1. Vista Ultimate 64 bit
Partition 2. XP Professional
Partition 3. Data
Install in this order without boot manager and I think it should work.

"Jim" wrote:

> Because I want Vista and WinXP isolate from each other, I use GAG 4.8 (
> http://gag.sourceforge.net/) instead of MS boot mamanger. My PC's hard
> drive configuration on my Gigabyte 965P-DS3 motherboard:
> disk 1: WinXP
> disk 2: Primary partition for data
> disk 3: Vista
>
> I can boot to WinXP if I set disk 1 as the first boot disk from BIOS. If
> I change the BIOS setting to boot from disk 3, Vista start up.
>
> With GAG, I can't boot to Vista whether I enable swap drive or not. Any
> suggestions? If I set to no drive swap, I got a blank screen and hang.
> If I enable drive swap, I hot "no bootmgr. press ctrl-alt-del...) message.
>

How do you boot XP without boot manager?

Nico_BE wrote:
> Why you need a boot manager?
> I have 3 partitions myself :
> Partition 1. Vista Ultimate 64 bit
> Partition 2. XP Professional
> Partition 3. Data
> Install in this order without boot manager and I think it should work.
>

Jim wrote:
> Because I want Vista and WinXP isolate from each other, I use GAG 4.8 (
> http://gag.sourceforge.net/) instead of MS boot mamanger. My PC's hard
> drive configuration on my Gigabyte 965P-DS3 motherboard:
> disk 1: WinXP
> disk 2: Primary partition for data
> disk 3: Vista
>
> I can boot to WinXP if I set disk 1 as the first boot disk from BIOS. If
> I change the BIOS setting to boot from disk 3, Vista start up.
>
> With GAG, I can't boot to Vista whether I enable swap drive or not. Any
> suggestions? If I set to no drive swap, I got a blank screen and hang.
> If I enable drive swap, I hot "no bootmgr. press ctrl-alt-del...) message.

GAG is a very unusual choice for someone who uses only MSWindows. Are
you also trying to boot non-MS operating systems like linux, *BSD, etc?

If not, then the Vista bootmgr is all you need, and you must give us
more information about what you are trying to do with GAG.

Don wrote:
>
> GAG is a very unusual choice for someone who uses only MSWindows. Are
> you also trying to boot non-MS operating systems like linux, *BSD, etc?
>
> If not, then the Vista bootmgr is all you need, and you must give us
> more information about what you are trying to do with GAG.
>

I do not want to use Vista bootmgr because it does not hide any
partition. From what I read, WinXP will delete Vista's restore points
and shadow copies if Vista's partition is visible.
At this point, I don't intend to install non-MS OS, just want to boot
either Vista or XP but hide the other one's partition.

Hi Jim,

Dual Booting Windows Vista & Windows XP:
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/dualboot.html


Jim wrote:
> Don wrote:
>>
>> GAG is a very unusual choice for someone who uses only MSWindows. Are
>> you also trying to boot non-MS operating systems like linux, *BSD, etc?
>>
>> If not, then the Vista bootmgr is all you need, and you must give us
>> more information about what you are trying to do with GAG.
>>
>
> I do not want to use Vista bootmgr because it does not hide any
> partition. From what I read, WinXP will delete Vista's restore points
> and shadow copies if Vista's partition is visible.
> At this point, I don't intend to install non-MS OS, just want to boot
> either Vista or XP but hide the other one's partition.