Dual HDD, Dual boot.

[Guest]

I have 2 Hard drives on my computer and I have Vista Home Premium on one and
Vista Business on the second(slave). I have had trouble instaling this
business Vista as it is an upgrade from XP Professional,When the XP installed
on slave the vista failed to install. I have tried 3 times and gave up,
however it seemed to me that I could disconnect the master hdd and install
onto the slave without any interference from the first home premium on the
master hdd.
This worked a treat except that when I plugged in the master hdd the only OS
to start was the home premium. Now I can only use Business when I disconnect
the master hdd. How can I select which OS to load on start up.

 

[John Barnes]

Use your install DVD and do a startup repair. The other option is to
download EasyBCD or VistaBootPro and add the other operating system entry to
the BCD.

 

[peter]

You could also check your BIOS to see if it has the capabilities to let you
chose which HD to boot from during the bootup procedure.
A lot of the newer BIOS let you determine which HD to boot from by means of
pushing F12 during the boot process which brings up a screen listing your HD
and you then chose which to boot from.This way there is no messy boot
files/mbr changes which can create havoc later...like if you remove/lose the
C drive you will not be able to boot into anything...or you decide not to
dual boot anymore.
its still your choice
peter

 

[John Barnes]

In his case he already has two independent systems, so there would be no
real problems later. Booting from the BIOS is, however, a good alternative.

 

[Guest]

WOW Thanks to you guys. I downloaded vistabootpro and now when I boot I get a
choice of OS's

 

[Alan T]

For my ASUS A8NE, I press F8 to boot into the screen.