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| Thread ID: 94345 | 2008-10-25 09:40:00 | Bypass vista boot manager and load XP directly?? | Agent_24 (57) | Press F1 |
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| 714803 | 2008-10-25 09:40:00 | When a dualboot system is setup, with Vista and XP (on a 2nd partition on the same drive) - Is it possible to boot XP without going through the vista boot manager? I imagine it would require an external loader to be started from floppy/CD etc first, then to redirect straight to XP. Is there anything that can do this? |
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| 714804 | 2008-10-25 09:42:00 | Cant you just change the boot.ini file so that your XP install is the default operating system. | stormdragon (6013) | ||
| 714805 | 2008-10-25 09:46:00 | No... that won't work cos Vista uses a different bootloader. Use something like EasyBCD (neosmart.net) and set XP as default, and time to wait at boot screen to 1 (0 might set time to wait to be be indefinite IIRC). | jwil1 (65) | ||
| 714806 | 2008-10-25 10:32:00 | I need to boot into the XP partition directly, Bypassing *everything* else except that which may be on floppy or CD. | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 714807 | 2008-10-25 11:36:00 | I was able to do it with the fixntldr bootdisk from here: www.tinyempire.com |
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