Windows Boot Manager

[Bob]

Hi,

I have Vista Home and Vista Business on different partitions on the same
computer. I'm trying to use Vista boot manager to control which one I boot
and it seems that boot manager will not boot a hidden partition.

Because I must unhide the partition to boot, Vista Home now has access to
Vista Business's partition.

How can I use boot manager without it revealing the other systems C-Drive?

Thanks!

 

[Ken Zhao [MSFT]]

Hello Bob,

Thank you for using newsgroup!

From your post, it seems you must use third party utility to do. For
example: VistaBoot Pro.
http://www.vistabootpro.org/

Thanks & Regards,

Ken Zhao

Microsoft Online Support
Microsoft Global Technical Support Center

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[Bob]

It looks like VistaBootPro is simply a GUI to BCDedit.

But my question more about Vista's Boot Manager. It seems to me that Boot
Manager is incapable of booting a hidden partition.

For example: I've Vista Home on partiton 1 and Vista Enterprise on partition
2. When I have both partitions un-hidden and boot Enterprise, the C-Drive
is Vista Home and the D-Drive is Vista Enterprise.

When I use third party boot managers such as PowerQuest PQboot to dual boot
XP, it hides partition 1 and boots partition 2. (PQboot doesn't support
Vista). I don't know of any third party boot manager for Vista, do you?
(VistaBootPro doesn't seem to be a boot manager).

In other words, it seems that Vista relies on both partitions. I'm guessing
it boots the kernal on partition 1 in all cases and then uses either
partition 1 or 2 (depending on what I want), to continue the boot process.

Is this how it works in Vista or have I something messed up?

XP did not have any reliance on the any other XP boot other than the one I
targeted. Although it should be said I've never used XP's boot manager, so
maybe it does the same thing that the Vista boot manager does.

Thanks,

Bob.

 

[Ken Zhao [MSFT]]

Hi Bob,

Maybe there is third party boot manager utility to boot a hidden partition.

Thanks & Regards,

Ken Zhao

Microsoft Online Support
Microsoft Global Technical Support Center

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