Dual boot Vista / WinXP

[Mats-Lennart Hansson]

Hi,
In my new computer I have a SATA harddisc that runs Windows Vista Business
Edition. This works fine. Now I have put my IDE harddisc from my old
computer (that runs WinXP) into my new computer, and within Vista I have
added this harddisc as a dual boot.

When starting my computer I get a menu where I can choose between Vista and
Windows XP. 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
2. I installed the IDE disc with Windows XP to the computer
3. I changed Vista Boot order to Dual boot against E:\ (WinXP drive)
4. When I select WinXP in boot menu, the computer restarts.

Can anyone give me hint of what I've done wrong?

Thanks,
Mats

 

[Mamamegs]

Mats-Lennart Hansson wrote :

Hi,
In my new computer I have a SATA harddisc that runs Windows Vista
Business Edition. This works fine. Now I have put my IDE harddisc
from my old computer (that runs WinXP) into my new computer, and
within Vista I have added this harddisc as a dual boot.

When starting my computer I get a menu where I can choose between
Vista and Windows XP. 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
2. I installed the IDE disc with Windows XP to the computer
3. I changed Vista Boot order to Dual boot against E:\ (WinXP drive)
4. When I select WinXP in boot menu, the computer restarts.

Can anyone give me hint of what I've done wrong?

Thanks,
Mats

Check out the paths to your XP drive. You can do this with
VistabootPro.
http://www.vistabootpro.org

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[Peter R. Fletcher]

AFAIK, you can't normally just add a disk with an OS on it to a system
and just tell the existing system to dual boot. You generally have to
install the 2 OSes sequentially in different folders (or disks), so
that the single preboot (there can only ever be one, on the active
partition) handles them sensibly. You can install Vista in the
presence of XP and dual boot them (provided that you install Vista on
a different partition), but you can't, without using third-party
"multi-boot" software, install XP on top of Vista and retain access to
both.

Hi,
In my new computer I have a SATA harddisc that runs Windows Vista Business
Edition. This works fine. Now I have put my IDE harddisc from my old
computer (that runs WinXP) into my new computer, and within Vista I have
added this harddisc as a dual boot.

When starting my computer I get a menu where I can choose between Vista and
Windows XP. 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
2. I installed the IDE disc with Windows XP to the computer
3. I changed Vista Boot order to Dual boot against E:\ (WinXP drive)
4. When I select WinXP in boot menu, the computer restarts.

Can anyone give me hint of what I've done wrong?

Thanks,
Mats

Please respond to the Newsgroup, so that others may benefit from the exchange.
Peter R. Fletcher

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Mats

If you intend to dual boot and want flexibility BootIt NG is a good
investment
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/examples.html


--


Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

[Michael Chare]

Hi,
In my new computer I have a SATA harddisc that runs Windows Vista Business
Edition. This works fine. Now I have put my IDE harddisc from my old
computer (that runs WinXP) into my new computer, and within Vista I have
added this harddisc as a dual boot.

When starting my computer I get a menu where I can choose between Vista
and Windows XP. 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
2. I installed the IDE disc with Windows XP to the computer
3. I changed Vista Boot order to Dual boot against E:\ (WinXP drive)
4. When I select WinXP in boot menu, the computer restarts.

Can anyone give me hint of what I've done wrong?

Thanks,
Mats

As you have it XP is on the D: drive and won't like it as it expects to be
on C:

When you want to boot XP adjust your Bios so that the XP disk is the first
disk selected, and will be the C: drive.

With my Asus mobo, I can hit F8 during the POST and then select the device
to boot from.

 

[Mats-Lennart Hansson]

Thanks for your response. The path seems fine. But I wonder if I maybe need
to change the boot.ini file in the winXP partition?

 

[Tim]

As you have it XP is on the D: drive and won't like it as it expects to be
on C:

When you want to boot XP adjust your Bios so that the XP disk is the first
disk selected, and will be the C: drive.

With my Asus mobo, I can hit F8 during the POST and then select the device
to boot from.

I'm running ultimate on my sata II, C:. When I boot from an xp pro disk, it
loads drivers and then can't find a hdd. I emailed Hitachi and they said it
should load; no drivers needed. I don't have an hdd driver disk( that's why
I emailed them). Is there a 'universal driver' for sata?

 

[Paul Randall]

I'm running ultimate on my sata II, C:. When I boot from an xp pro disk,
it loads drivers and then can't find a hdd. I emailed Hitachi and they
said it should load; no drivers needed. I don't have an hdd driver disk(
that's why I emailed them). Is there a 'universal driver' for sata?

I have a cheap Compaq with Vista Home Basic preinstalled on a Sata drive.
The BIOS presents it as a separate category from the IDE drives, but even
the DOS version of Ghost running from a W98 DOS boot floppy can access the
Sata drive. I replaced the original Sata drive with a larger drive and
created two Fat32 partition on it (in addition to the two NTSF partition
Compaq used), and those partitions are seen from the W98 DOS boot floppy Dir
command.

-Paul Randall

 

[Tim]

I have a cheap Compaq with Vista Home Basic preinstalled on a Sata drive.
The BIOS presents it as a separate category from the IDE drives, but even
the DOS version of Ghost running from a W98 DOS boot floppy can access the
Sata drive. I replaced the original Sata drive with a larger drive and
created two Fat32 partition on it (in addition to the two NTSF partition
Compaq used), and those partitions are seen from the W98 DOS boot floppy
Dir command.

-Paul Randall

I changed the disk management in the BIOS to EIDE. I have 2 partitions. XP
found partition 1. Does that mean my current C: drive is partition 0 , and
XP found D: partition 1 ? The volume is close to what My Computer reports
for D: . I don't want to delete my current vista, but it wouldn't be the
worst.

 

[Ron Sommer]

:
: : >
: > : >>
: >> : >>> : >>>> Hi,
: >>>> In my new computer I have a SATA harddisc that runs Windows Vista
: >>>> Business Edition. This works fine. Now I have put my IDE harddisc
from
: >>>> my old computer (that runs WinXP) into my new computer, and within
: >>>> Vista I have added this harddisc as a dual boot.
: >>>>
: >>>> When starting my computer I get a menu where I can choose between
Vista
: >>>> and Windows XP. 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
: >>>> 2. I installed the IDE disc with Windows XP to the computer
: >>>> 3. I changed Vista Boot order to Dual boot against E:\ (WinXP drive)
: >>>> 4. When I select WinXP in boot menu, the computer restarts.
: >>>>
: >>>> Can anyone give me hint of what I've done wrong?
: >>>>
: >>>> Thanks,
: >>>> Mats
: >>>>
: >>>
: >>> As you have it XP is on the D: drive and won't like it as it expects
to
: >>> be on C:
: >>>
: >>> When you want to boot XP adjust your Bios so that the XP disk is the
: >>> first disk selected, and will be the C: drive.
: >>>
: >>> With my Asus mobo, I can hit F8 during the POST and then select the
: >>> device to boot from.
: >>>
: >>>
: >>> --
: >>> Michael Chare
: >>
: >> I'm running ultimate on my sata II, C:. When I boot from an xp pro
disk,
: >> it loads drivers and then can't find a hdd. I emailed Hitachi and they
: >> said it should load; no drivers needed. I don't have an hdd driver
: >> disk( that's why I emailed them). Is there a 'universal driver' for
sata?
: >
: > I have a cheap Compaq with Vista Home Basic preinstalled on a Sata
drive.
: > The BIOS presents it as a separate category from the IDE drives, but
even
: > the DOS version of Ghost running from a W98 DOS boot floppy can access
the
: > Sata drive. I replaced the original Sata drive with a larger drive and
: > created two Fat32 partition on it (in addition to the two NTSF partition
: > Compaq used), and those partitions are seen from the W98 DOS boot floppy
: > Dir command.
: >
: > -Paul Randall
: >
: I changed the disk management in the BIOS to EIDE. I have 2 partitions. XP
: found partition 1. Does that mean my current C: drive is partition 0 , and
: XP found D: partition 1 ? The volume is close to what My Computer reports
: for D: . I don't want to delete my current vista, but it wouldn't be the
: worst.
:
:
: --
:
:
Partition numbering starts with 1.
Everything else starts with 0.

 

[Tim]

:
: : >
: > : >>
: >> : >>> : >>>> Hi,
: >>>> In my new computer I have a SATA harddisc that runs Windows Vista
: >>>> Business Edition. This works fine. Now I have put my IDE harddisc
from
: >>>> my old computer (that runs WinXP) into my new computer, and within
: >>>> Vista I have added this harddisc as a dual boot.
: >>>>
: >>>> When starting my computer I get a menu where I can choose between
Vista
: >>>> and Windows XP. 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
: >>>> 2. I installed the IDE disc with Windows XP to the computer
: >>>> 3. I changed Vista Boot order to Dual boot against E:\ (WinXP
drive)
: >>>> 4. When I select WinXP in boot menu, the computer restarts.
: >>>>
: >>>> Can anyone give me hint of what I've done wrong?
: >>>>
: >>>> Thanks,
: >>>> Mats
: >>>>
: >>>
: >>> As you have it XP is on the D: drive and won't like it as it expects
to
: >>> be on C:
: >>>
: >>> When you want to boot XP adjust your Bios so that the XP disk is the
: >>> first disk selected, and will be the C: drive.
: >>>
: >>> With my Asus mobo, I can hit F8 during the POST and then select the
: >>> device to boot from.
: >>>
: >>>
: >>> --
: >>> Michael Chare
: >>
: >> I'm running ultimate on my sata II, C:. When I boot from an xp pro
disk,
: >> it loads drivers and then can't find a hdd. I emailed Hitachi and
they
: >> said it should load; no drivers needed. I don't have an hdd driver
: >> disk( that's why I emailed them). Is there a 'universal driver' for
sata?
: >
: > I have a cheap Compaq with Vista Home Basic preinstalled on a Sata
drive.
: > The BIOS presents it as a separate category from the IDE drives, but
even
: > the DOS version of Ghost running from a W98 DOS boot floppy can access
the
: > Sata drive. I replaced the original Sata drive with a larger drive
and
: > created two Fat32 partition on it (in addition to the two NTSF
partition
: > Compaq used), and those partitions are seen from the W98 DOS boot
floppy
: > Dir command.
: >
: > -Paul Randall
: >
: I changed the disk management in the BIOS to EIDE. I have 2 partitions.
XP
: found partition 1. Does that mean my current C: drive is partition 0 ,
and
: XP found D: partition 1 ? The volume is close to what My Computer
reports
: for D: . I don't want to delete my current vista, but it wouldn't be the
: worst.
:
:
: --
:
:
Partition numbering starts with 1.
Everything else starts with 0.

Bummer.

 

[Ron Sommer]

:
: : >
: > : > :
: > : : > : >
: > : > :snipped
: > : >>
: > : >> I'm running ultimate on my sata II, C:. When I boot from an xp pro
: > disk,
: > : >> it loads drivers and then can't find a hdd. I emailed Hitachi and
: > they
: > : >> said it should load; no drivers needed. I don't have an hdd driver
: > : >> disk( that's why I emailed them). Is there a 'universal driver' for
: > sata?
: > : >
: > : > I have a cheap Compaq with Vista Home Basic preinstalled on a Sata
: > drive.
: > : > The BIOS presents it as a separate category from the IDE drives, but
: > even
: > : > the DOS version of Ghost running from a W98 DOS boot floppy can
access
: > the
: > : > Sata drive. I replaced the original Sata drive with a larger drive
: > and
: > : > created two Fat32 partition on it (in addition to the two NTSF
: > partition
: > : > Compaq used), and those partitions are seen from the W98 DOS boot
: > floppy
: > : > Dir command.
: > : >
: > : > -Paul Randall
: > : >
: > : I changed the disk management in the BIOS to EIDE. I have 2
partitions.
: > XP
: > : found partition 1. Does that mean my current C: drive is partition 0 ,
: > and
: > : XP found D: partition 1 ? The volume is close to what My Computer
: > reports
: > : for D: . I don't want to delete my current vista, but it wouldn't be
the
: > : worst.
: > :
: > :
: > : --
: > :
: > :
: > Partition numbering starts with 1.
: > Everything else starts with 0.
: > --
: > Ronald Sommer
: >
: Bummer.
:
:
: --
:
:
Why did you change the Bios setting to EIDE?

Drive letters are assigned by an operating system.
My XP is on the second partition and calls the partition C.
My first partition XP calls D.
If I install another disk and clone XP to the first partition, the cloned XP
will boot and say it is on C.

Vista does not have to be on the first partition and say it is on C.

Volumes are listed alphabetically.
What does the graphical view show as to which partition Vista is on?

 

[Ron Sommer]

: : > Hi,
: > In my new computer I have a SATA harddisc that runs Windows Vista
Business
: > Edition. This works fine. Now I have put my IDE harddisc from my old
: > computer (that runs WinXP) into my new computer, and within Vista I have
: > added this harddisc as a dual boot.
: >
: > When starting my computer I get a menu where I can choose between Vista
: > and Windows XP. 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
: > 2. I installed the IDE disc with Windows XP to the computer
: > 3. I changed Vista Boot order to Dual boot against E:\ (WinXP drive)
: > 4. When I select WinXP in boot menu, the computer restarts.
: >
: > Can anyone give me hint of what I've done wrong?
: >
: > Thanks,
: > Mats
: >
:
: As you have it XP is on the D: drive and won't like it as it expects to be
: on C:
:
: When you want to boot XP adjust your Bios so that the XP disk is the first
: disk selected, and will be the C: drive.
:
: With my Asus mobo, I can hit F8 during the POST and then select the device
: to boot from.
:
:
: --
: Michael Chare
:
Drive letters are assigned by an operating system.
My XP is on the second partition and calls the partition C.
XP doesn't care which partition it is on.
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.

 

[Tim]

:
: : >
: > : > :
: > : : > : >
: > : > :snipped
: > : >>
: > : >> I'm running ultimate on my sata II, C:. When I boot from an xp
pro
: > disk,
: > : >> it loads drivers and then can't find a hdd. I emailed Hitachi and
: > they
: > : >> said it should load; no drivers needed. I don't have an hdd
driver
: > : >> disk( that's why I emailed them). Is there a 'universal driver'
for
: > sata?
: > : >
: > : > I have a cheap Compaq with Vista Home Basic preinstalled on a Sata
: > drive.
: > : > The BIOS presents it as a separate category from the IDE drives,
but
: > even
: > : > the DOS version of Ghost running from a W98 DOS boot floppy can
access
: > the
: > : > Sata drive. I replaced the original Sata drive with a larger
drive
: > and
: > : > created two Fat32 partition on it (in addition to the two NTSF
: > partition
: > : > Compaq used), and those partitions are seen from the W98 DOS boot
: > floppy
: > : > Dir command.
: > : >
: > : > -Paul Randall
: > : >
: > : I changed the disk management in the BIOS to EIDE. I have 2
partitions.
: > XP
: > : found partition 1. Does that mean my current C: drive is partition 0
,
: > and
: > : XP found D: partition 1 ? The volume is close to what My Computer
: > reports
: > : for D: . I don't want to delete my current vista, but it wouldn't be
the
: > : worst.
: > :
: > :
: > : --
: > :
: > :
: > Partition numbering starts with 1.
: > Everything else starts with 0.
: > --
: > Ronald Sommer
: >
: Bummer.
:
:
: --
:
:
Why did you change the Bios setting to EIDE?

Drive letters are assigned by an operating system.
My XP is on the second partition and calls the partition C.
My first partition XP calls D.
If I install another disk and clone XP to the first partition, the cloned
XP
will boot and say it is on C.

Vista does not have to be on the first partition and say it is on C.

Volumes are listed alphabetically.
What does the graphical view show as to which partition Vista is on?

XP couldn't find my sata hdd. I don't have a floppy drive, to load drivers
that I don't have, either. I had to change the BIOS back to raid because
vista wouldn't boot.
Vista is on the first partition.....Why didn't XP see TWO partitions? AND,
back to my OP, how do I install XP without sata drivers?

 

[Ron Sommer]

:
: : >
: > : > :
: > : : > : >
: > : > : > : > :
: > : > : : > : > : >
: > : > : > : > :snipped
: > : > : >>
: > : > : >> I'm running ultimate on my sata II, C:. When I boot from an xp
: > pro
: > : > disk,
: > : > : >> it loads drivers and then can't find a hdd. I emailed Hitachi
and
: > : > they
: > : > : >> said it should load; no drivers needed. I don't have an hdd
: > driver
: > : > : >> disk( that's why I emailed them). Is there a 'universal driver'
: > for
: > : > sata?
: > : > : >
: > : > : > I have a cheap Compaq with Vista Home Basic preinstalled on a
Sata
: > : > drive.
: > : > : > The BIOS presents it as a separate category from the IDE drives,
: > but
: > : > even
: > : > : > the DOS version of Ghost running from a W98 DOS boot floppy can
: > access
: > : > the
: > : > : > Sata drive. I replaced the original Sata drive with a larger
: > drive
: > : > and
: > : > : > created two Fat32 partition on it (in addition to the two NTSF
: > : > partition
: > : > : > Compaq used), and those partitions are seen from the W98 DOS
boot
: > : > floppy
: > : > : > Dir command.
: > : > : >
: > : > : > -Paul Randall
: > : > : >
: > : > : I changed the disk management in the BIOS to EIDE. I have 2
: > partitions.
: > : > XP
: > : > : found partition 1. Does that mean my current C: drive is partition
0
: > ,
: > : > and
: > : > : XP found D: partition 1 ? The volume is close to what My Computer
: > : > reports
: > : > : for D: . I don't want to delete my current vista, but it wouldn't
be
: > the
: > : > : worst.
: > : > :
: > : > :
: > : > : --
: > : > :
: > : > :
: > : > Partition numbering starts with 1.
: > : > Everything else starts with 0.
: > : > --
: > : > Ronald Sommer
: > : >
: > : Bummer.
: > :
: > :
: > : --
: > :
: > :
: > Why did you change the Bios setting to EIDE?
: >
: > Drive letters are assigned by an operating system.
: > My XP is on the second partition and calls the partition C.
: > My first partition XP calls D.
: > If I install another disk and clone XP to the first partition, the
cloned
: > XP
: > will boot and say it is on C.
: >
: > Vista does not have to be on the first partition and say it is on C.
: >
: > Volumes are listed alphabetically.
: > What does the graphical view show as to which partition Vista is on?
: > --
: > Ronald Sommer
: >
: XP couldn't find my sata hdd. I don't have a floppy drive, to load drivers
: that I don't have, either. I had to change the BIOS back to raid because
: vista wouldn't boot.
: Vista is on the first partition.....Why didn't XP see TWO partitions? AND,
: back to my OP, how do I install XP without sata drivers?
:
:
: --
:
:
I haven't worked with SATA drives, so I can't help.
Sorry