Dual boot with vista

[KEN]

Hi guys..
I'm triyng to use vista...
I installed in C partition..and in other partition I've Windows XP sp1 ..but
no boot menu was created! Windows XP was present before Vista
In other words...run only Vista without dual boot.
So, What I can Do to create a boot menu?
I saw that in root C: (where is Vista) miss boot.ini file..ntldr and
ntdetect

Thanx you!

 

[William R. Mosher]

If you want to install Vista in a dual boot scenario, then you need to
begin the Vista install by inserting the DVD while you are running XP.
When the install window shows, just follow the directions. If you boot
initially from the Vista DVD, it will install with no reference to your XP.

William

 

[John Doe]

I had no problem booting from the Vista DVD, and I can still dual boot with
my previous XP partition. In fact, when I first tried to install Vista by
running the setup in XP, it appeared to lock up. So I then decided to boot
from the dvd, and I've had no issues.

 

[John Doe]

I had no problem booting from the Vista DVD, and I can still dual boot with
my previous XP partition. In fact, when I first tried to install Vista by
running the setup in XP, it appeared to lock up. So I then decided to boot
from the dvd, and I've had no issues.

 

[Tom Ferguson]

This might be worth a look.
http://www.windowstalk.org/dual_boot_vista.htm

Tom
MSMVP
Windows shell/User


: Hi guys..
: I'm triyng to use vista...
: I installed in C partition..and in other partition I've Windows XP sp1
...but
: no boot menu was created! Windows XP was present before Vista
: In other words...run only Vista without dual boot.
: So, What I can Do to create a boot menu?
: I saw that in root C: (where is Vista) miss boot.ini file..ntldr and
: ntdetect
:
: Thanx you!
:

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

William, that has not been my experience. I got a boot options screen both
ways.

 

[William R. Mosher]

I had that experience with 5308. Since then I have been doing a dual
boot running XP. Since I have a second computer running XP, I made the
plunge and made my main computer a Vista only PC. I figure with my
important information safe, that the best way to find out the good, the
bad, and the ugly was to install it as the only operating system on my
main PC and use it every day. In a worse case scenario, since my
important data is safe, I could just blow away the Vista install
completely, and do a clean install of Windows XP Pro with clean new
partitions on my hard drives.

William

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Not dual booting also insulates you from some User Access Control issues on
drives shared by both XP and Vista as well. But I just thought you ought to
know all the variations of installing Vista except the disabled drive
scenario will produce the boot options screen.

 

[Beck]

Hi guys..
I'm triyng to use vista...
I installed in C partition..and in other partition I've Windows XP sp1
..but no boot menu was created! Windows XP was present before Vista
In other words...run only Vista without dual boot.
So, What I can Do to create a boot menu?
I saw that in root C: (where is Vista) miss boot.ini file..ntldr and
ntdetect

Usually when XP is there first it resides on partition C. What did you have
on C prior to installing XP?