Dual Boot - Vista64 and XP Pro

[Guest]

Had Dual boot XP Home and XP Pro. All fine

Upgraded XP Home to Vista64 now now longer have dual boot. Only Vista
available.

How do I get Boot menu with XP Pro option back?

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

VistaBootPro is the easiest way:
http://www.vistabootpro.org/

Or you can use bcdedit from an elevated command prompt:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms791568.aspx

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Guest]

thanks - but neither any use

Vista seems to have deleted 3 needed xp boot files. may have put them in
windows.old but I deleted that at first boot so ...

Oh well will try XP recovery and then Vista recovery and see.

If that dont work then will just wipe all and start again.

Disk 1 XP home
Disk 2: XP Pro
Disk 1: Vista
hope it works this time

Waste of a day :-(

 

[Carl F]

thanks - but neither any use

Vista seems to have deleted 3 needed xp boot files. may have put them in
windows.old but I deleted that at first boot so ...

Oh well will try XP recovery and then Vista recovery and see.

If that dont work then will just wipe all and start again.

Disk 1 XP home
Disk 2: XP Pro
Disk 1: Vista
hope it works this time

Waste of a day :-(

visit the following site
http://www.vistabootpro.org/index-changelog.php
you may want to use their software

I set up a dual boot using XP 64 bit and Vista Ultimate 64 bit
a couple of months ago. It works fine.

Carl F

 

[Ian Betts]

Had Dual boot XP Home and XP Pro. All fine

Upgraded XP Home to Vista64 now now longer have dual boot. Only Vista
available.

How do I get Boot menu with XP Pro option back?

You did not say if this was two partitions or two drives. Either way if you
load Vista and it goes to you first partition or first drive you will
overwrite the bootloader and Vista probably failed to read XP. You needed
Vista on first.

 

[Paul Randall]

Had Dual boot XP Home and XP Pro. All fine

Upgraded XP Home to Vista64 now now longer have dual boot. Only Vista
available.

How do I get Boot menu with XP Pro option back?

Don't forget the lost restore points problem:

"This problem occurs because the volume snapshot driver that is included
with Windows Vista and with Windows Server "Longhorn" uses disk
structures that are incompatible with earlier versions of Windows.
Therefore, the earlier operating system deletes Windows Vista shadow
copies or Windows Server "Longhorn" shadow copies together with the
associated restore points. This behavior occurs because the earlier
Windows operating systems do not recognize the new disk structures."

That quote comes from:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926185

-Paul Randall

 

[Lenster]

The only really foolproof way I have found to install Vista and XP is:

Assuming
1. you have more than one HD;
2. you can select which hard drive to boot from thru BIOS selection.
(on mine I can press F11 at boot and get a selection screen).

I unplugged the second HD and installed Vista on the first HD with the
appropriate drivers etc to get a minimal working version up and
running.

I then unplugged the first HD, plugged in the second one and installed
XP on a primary partition on it along with the necessary drivers etc.
You can then plug in both and select which one to boot from using the
BIOS selection. No problems with overwriting boot records etc.

BTW I also installed Vista 64 on my third HD using the same technique
and they all work and play well together.

 

[cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)]

On Sat, 4 Aug 2007 11:15:54 -0600, "Paul Randall"

Don't forget the lost restore points problem:

"This problem occurs because the volume snapshot driver that is included
with Windows Vista and with Windows Server "Longhorn" uses disk
structures that are incompatible with earlier versions of Windows.
Therefore, the earlier operating system deletes Windows Vista shadow
copies or Windows Server "Longhorn" shadow copies together with the
associated restore points. This behavior occurs because the earlier
Windows operating systems do not recognize the new disk structures."

That quote comes from:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926185

This may be a better last sentence:

"This behavior occurs because the new disk structures were not
designed to be compatible with earlier Windows operating systems"

Whoever designed the new Vista shadow copy stuff should have known
what XP would do to this material, and considered users who would use
the ability to dual-boot between Vista and XP.

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