Dual boot problem

[Guest]

Hey,
I got my laptop with vista home installed on it and today i installed xp
home on it on the resized vista partition.
the setup was successful and the computer booted into xp but when i
restarted i didnt get a bootloader or alternate os dialog. so i edited my
boot.ini in xp hoping i could have it boot into the vista partition (2)
instead of the xp partition (3) but this didnt work. in my ini for the vista
command line is:

[operating systems]
multi(0)disc(0)rdisc(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Home Edition"
multi(0)disc(0)rdisc(0)partition(2)\Windows="Windows Vista Home"

as you can see the default is windows xp, if i change this my machine will
not be bootable because of vista not booting properly.

Please, any help is much appreciated
Thanks.

 

[...winston]

Install Vista Boot Pro or EasyBCD to modifiy the Vista boot loader for a dual boot system, create the dual boot option, and select a default o/s to boot at startup. Additionally, rename the older operating system to Windows XP.

Undo the boot.ini options to a pre edited condition, they will not be used since Vista's bootloader will manage the process.
- i.e. you can't use xp's boot loader to run Vista or both thus you have to reactivate Vista's bootloader to do both.

VistaBoot Pro
http://www.vistabootpro.org/index.php
http://www.pro-networks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=88231

EasyBCD
http://neosmart.net/gallery/v/neosmart/EasyBCD/1_50/


Read this about System Restore
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/dualboot.html

Other dual booting articles:
http://apcmag.com/5485/dualbooting_vista_and_xp
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/919529


: Hey,
: I got my laptop with vista home installed on it and today i installed xp
: home on it on the resized vista partition.
: the setup was successful and the computer booted into xp but when i
: restarted i didnt get a bootloader or alternate os dialog. so i edited my
: boot.ini in xp hoping i could have it boot into the vista partition (2)
: instead of the xp partition (3) but this didnt work. in my ini for the vista
: command line is:
:
: [operating systems]
: multi(0)disc(0)rdisc(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Home Edition"
: multi(0)disc(0)rdisc(0)partition(2)\Windows="Windows Vista Home"
:
: as you can see the default is windows xp, if i change this my machine will
: not be bootable because of vista not booting properly.
:
: Please, any help is much appreciated
: Thanks.