Vista has its own bootloader, so changing boot.ini will not help.
If the following reply from another post doesn't help, then ask the question
in a vista newsgroup.
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.vista.general
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Ron Sommer
You can't add Vista to the XP bootloader, it needs to be the other way
around: You'd add XP to the Vista bootloader. This utility here may help:
http://www.pro-networks.org/vistabootpro/
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Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
Windows help -
www.rickrogers.org
: have a look at the boot.ini file, and change this around manually
: (and / or post the content of your boot.ini file to this news group)
:
: rgsd,
: Edwin.
:
:
: : > I tried this but the only entries I have is win xp professional and win
xp
: > professional tuneup backup, the vista os is not in the list.
message
: > : > > Right click on my computer
: > > choose properties
: > > choose advanced
: > > click the Startup and recovery button
: > > (a new window pops up)
: > >
: > > in this window you can choose the default OS, and the time to wait
: before
: > > starting
: > >
: > > HTH
: > > _Edwin.
: > >
: > >
: > > : > >> I have a dual boot that appears in this order on boot
: > >> Vista as first option (located on E partition)
: > >> XP Pro as second option (on C drive)
: > >>
: > >> If I let the boot sequence run it will default to vista, how do I
make
: XP
: > >> Pro become the default OS?
: > >>
: > >>
: > >
: > >
: >
: >
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