Going from Vista to a dual boot system

[Guest]

I have two hard drives. I currently have Vista on one of them and I want to
install XP on the other and have the option of booting to either one on start
up. I installed XP on the 2nd drive but I never got the option of selecting
which OS to start up with and after I installed XP, it didn't even recognize
the drive that Vista was on. So, can someone tell me if I have Vista on one
drive and have a second formatted drive, how can I install XP and have the
dual boot option?

 

[AJR]

Vista must be installed via XP - however give serious,consideration to a
dual boot setup. If you have been monitoring the newsgroups you should be
aware of the difficulties created when one desires to return to Vista (or
XP).

 

[Guest]

Yes I have read about some of the misery that occurs. I've decided to try and
use the Virtual PC software and see if I can accomplish what I need to do,
with it.

 

[rtk]

If Vista was installed first, try booting off the vista disk and using the
startup repair tool. It should fix your boot files and find both operating
systems.

rtk