Vista and XP Dual Boot Hell!

[mcbacon]

Hi guys

I've been using Vista for ages now, but decided to dual boot XP for
some apps and games. After installing XP on a secondary partition, it
booted into XP with no option for Vista.
After reading a tutorial, I found that if you put the Vista CD in, and
boot from that, you can do a "Start Up Repaire" which goes fine, says
that it was sucessful, chucks me out and loads up... XP!

Gack! I need to boot into Vista to run some program called EasyBCD
which will let me change the boot settings, but I havn't been able to
get into Vista since I ran XP.

Please help, I don't want to have to format everything and install 2
OSs from scratch, that might just drive me mad.

Thanks for reading, Mark

 

[carl feredeck]

download, install this on xp, and select to install the vista bootloader
http://www.vistabootpro.org/

free

 

[Guest]

Having had similar problems with dual-booting XP and Vista, I'd recommend
only using Vista to boot and using a Virtual Machine to run XP in.

- John

 

[Gladiator]

Having had similar problems with dual-booting XP and Vista, I'd recommend
only using Vista to boot and using a Virtual Machine to run XP in.

- John

Or dual boot the better way. Use two hdd's, install XP to one and
Vista to the other. Must disconect the other hDD when doing this. And
then use the mb's function key during boot up to choose which HDD to
boot to. All newer mb's support this function and is how I dual boot
XP/Vista. This way there is no boot menu needed in the mbr. One OS
goes down and you can still boot to the other.

 

[Bert Kinney]

Hi Mark,

You will want to read this also.
Dual Booting Windows Vista & Windows XP:
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/dualboot.html

Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org
Member: http://dts-l.org