Extremely Slow Dual Boot

[Guest]

I am dual booting Vista and XP Pro SP2. I have an 80 gig SATA drive that I
split in half which already had XP installed.
Everything is working but when you boot the machine, it sits at a black
screen with the cursor flashing in the upper left corner for about a minute
before the boot option menu appears. Once I select an OS everything seems to
move along and both operating systems run fine.
On another system I have only Vista installed and it boots right into Vista
very quickly so it seems to be something with the boot loader.
Any ideas on where this hang is coming from and how I can remove it?

 

[Guest]

Sorry for the double post. I kept saying there was an error.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Have you reported this as a bug against Vista Mail and the Vista Help and
Support Center?

 

[Guest]

I have not. I appears to be specific to this hardware. I installed Vista as
a dual boot on different hardware and the boot times are the same as an XP/XP
dual boot, so something is just peculiar about that hardware. Although an
XP/XP dual boot on the original hardware is much faster than an XP/Vista dual
boot.