Setting up dual boot

[Paul Schumacher]

I have installed Vista on the C: drive and had XP installed on what now is
the second drive in the first partition and it is now active and unhidden.
This was hidden when I installed Vista. When I boot the machine it does not
see the second OS so it just boots to Vista normally. How do I make it give
me the dual boot choice?

Thanks!!

Paul

 

[jim]

you have to install the OLD OS first, then install the NEW OS

DANGER>> stupid Microsoft left a BUG that will delete the vista restore
points
every time you boot into XP.

Be warned.. vista sucks

 

[Paul Schumacher]

I had the old XP OS installed first but the partition it is in on the second
drive was hiddened at the time and was not "active" . Should I reinstall
Vista?

Thanks.

Paul

 

[jim]

yes vista should "see" that xp exists so it can add it to its boot manager

so reinstall vista with xp not hidden

 

[Max]

Completely unnecessary.

http://www.vistabootpro.org/
"Advanced settings include backing up and exporting your boot loader
configuration, making advanced "functional" changes like adding an operating
system to the boot menu..."
http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1
"EasyBCD is geared for users of all kinds. Whether you just want to add an
entry to your old XP partition ..."

 

[Saucy Lemon]

There's more than one way to skin the dualboot cat, verily so ..

Happily dualbooting in Canada,
Saucy Lemon

 

[Chad Harris]

Definitely second Max. Try one of them and they have tutorials that are
screenshoted for them as well.

CH

 

[Andrew]

I think you would have been much better off not hiding the parttion in the
first place.

However, I think now... You'll probably have to look up and learn to use
BCDEdit.exe

Not real fun, but I think it'll do the job.

Sorry no step-by-step instructions that I know of yet.

 

[Andrew]

Oh, I see now there is also a GUI interface to BCD someone wrote:

http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1

Might be easier than banging your way through with the command line
BCDEdit.exe

Cheers