dual booting

[Peter]

I have a pc with 2 separate hard drives, vista on 1 and xp pro on the other,
is there a way I can dual boot without having to go into the bios and change
the boot order?

Peter

 

[peter]

If you had wanted to set up a dual boot you should have installed Vista from
within XP....this would have setup the dual boot option automatically.
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/driver/tips/debug_vista.mspx
peter

 

[Timothy Daniels]

Don't you mean "should have installed Vista *after* XP"?

*TimDaniels*

 

[Peter]

I have a pc with 2 separate hard drives, vista on 1 and xp pro on the
other, is there a way I can dual boot without having to go into the bios
and change the boot order?

Peter

It just so happened that I decided it would be wise to setup vista on a
spare 30Gb drive... just in case it all went tits up I could swop hard
drives and be back to normal. I found vista slowed down my pc(amd duron 1.35
ghz GA-7N400 PRO2 mobo 512mb memory) so much I put the origional drive back
a master and the vista drive as a slave, just wondering if I could dual boot
somehow. I dont like the idea of choosing the upgrade option.

 

[Timothy Daniels]

It just so happened that I decided it would be wise to setup
vista on a spare 30Gb drive... just in case it all went tits up
I could swop hard drives and be back to normal. I found
vista slowed down my pc(amd duron 1.35 ghz
GA-7N400 PRO2 mobo 512mb memory) so much I put
the origional drive back a master and the vista drive as a slave,
just wondering if I could dual boot somehow. I dont like the
idea of choosing the upgrade option.

Personally, I'd not fiddle with mating 2 different boot managers
and either go with changing the hard drive boot order in the BIOS
or with using a 3rd-party boot manager.

*TimDaniels*

 

[Rock]

I have a pc with 2 separate hard drives, vista on 1 and xp pro on the
other, is there a way I can dual boot without having to go into the bios
and change the boot order?

VistaBoot Pro works nicely for this. It's free.
http://www.vistabootpro.org/