Default Boot Drive?

[LMO]

Okay, so I got a new system (AMD Athlon Dual Core, 3GHz, Vista Home Premium,
500GB SATA HDD), installed a new SATA drive (250GB), and installed WinXP on
the new drive (I undid all the cable to the Vista drive first). Now, I can
boot off Vista or XP, but the default system is XP. I have to go to the Boot
menu to bring Vista up. Is there a way to set the Vista drive as the default
drive? Can I simply switch the drive cables? The jumpers no longer do
Master/Slave, so I'm not sure on this. Any help will be appreciated.
(BTW, when I boot up in Vista, and use a boot up controller program like
Easy BCD, it does not show XP as a boot option).

LMO

 

[Andy]

Okay, so I got a new system (AMD Athlon Dual Core, 3GHz, Vista Home
Premium, 500GB SATA HDD), installed a new SATA drive (250GB), and
installed WinXP on the new drive (I undid all the cable to the Vista drive
first). Now, I can boot off Vista or XP, but the default system is XP. I
have to go to the Boot menu to bring Vista up. Is there a way to set the
Vista drive as the default drive? Can I simply switch the drive cables?
The jumpers no longer do Master/Slave, so I'm not sure on this. Any help
will be appreciated.
(BTW, when I boot up in Vista, and use a boot up controller program like
Easy BCD, it does not show XP as a boot option).

LMO

Hi, some motherboards allow you to set the boot order of the hard drives in
the BIOS. This is how I overcame the exact issue you have using my Asus
Crosshair mobo.


Andy

 

[Andy]

Okay, so I got a new system (AMD Athlon Dual Core, 3GHz, Vista Home Premium,
500GB SATA HDD), installed a new SATA drive (250GB), and installed WinXP on
the new drive (I undid all the cable to the Vista drive first). Now, I can
boot off Vista or XP, but the default system is XP. I have to go to the Boot
menu to bring Vista up. Is there a way to set the Vista drive as the default
drive? Can I simply switch the drive cables?

You can switch cables. However, the bios has a Hard Disk Boot Priority
or Hard Disk Drives setting that allows you to move the desired drive
to the top of the list.

The jumpers no longer do
Master/Slave, so I'm not sure on this. Any help will be appreciated.
(BTW, when I boot up in Vista, and use a boot up controller program like
Easy BCD, it does not show XP as a boot option).

It wouldn't, since you disconnected the Vista drive while installing
XP.

 

[woody]

Unplug the Sata cable for the XP, boot to Vista, shutdown, reconnect XP
drive. Vista drive should now be default.

Woody

 

[LMO]

Yeah, just changing the data cable did the trick. Thanks!

 

[meerkat]

Yeah, just changing the data cable did the trick. Thanks!

http://apcmag.com/how_to_dual_boot_vista_and_xp_with_vista_installed_first__the_stepbystep_guide.htm
go here, and follow the guide through,
it`ll show you how to add the XP with EasyBCD.

bw..