Unable to dual boot Vitsa and XP

[Guest]

I split my hard disc (Dell Inspiron Dual Core laptop) into 2 partitions.
Installed vista fine on the first partition.

Then booted from the xp disk and installed XP.

Reboot, and only XP comes up - no option for vista.

Ho Hum, 2 hours wasted. Lets try putting vista back on the first partition.
Installed fine. Reboot.....

No XP!!!

I can see the 2 partitions with all their seperate files but I cannot get
the dual boot option up.

Any thoughts?

 

[Guest]

Simple, always install the newest OS latest. Vista knows about XP but XP
cannot know about Vista.

Greetings,
Stephen

 

[Guest]

Download VistaBootPro (its free). Use it to write the necessary boot changes
and you'll be OK.

Here's a triple-boot example:- (actually the XP leads to seperat English and
Spanish boots)

There are a total of 3 OSes installed into the boot manager.
Current timeout before default boots: 30 seconds.
Default OS: Vista RC1 Colin

Entry # 1

Name: Vista RC1 Colin
BCD ID: {current}
Boot Drive: C:
Windows Drive: C:
System Bootloader: \Windows\system32\winload.exe
Windows Directory: \Windows

Entry # 2

Name: Vista RC1 Edwin
BCD ID: {763be11e-4501-11db-b25d-00508dd97b58}
Boot Drive: H:
Windows Drive: H:
System Bootloader: \windows\system32\winload.exe
Windows Directory: \Windows

Entry # 3

Name: XP English/Spanish
BCD ID: {763be120-4501-11db-b25d-00508dd97b58}
Boot Drive: F:
Windows Drive:
System Bootloader: \ntldr
Windows Directory:

 

[Guest]

This may help as well..

Windows Vista no longer starts after you install an earlier version of the
Windows operating system in a dual-boot configuration
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;919529