dual boot WinXP & Vista with GAG 4.8

[Jim]

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.

 

[Guest]

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]

How do you boot XP without boot manager?

 

[Don]

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.

 

[Jim]

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.

 

[Bert Kinney]

Hi Jim,

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