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Thread ID: 82686	2007-09-04 11:34:00	XP/Vista dual boot with a twist	george12 (7)	Press F1

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587861	2007-09-04 11:34:00	Hi I've gone rather wrongly about setting up a Vista/XP dual boot, in that both OSs were installed not knowing about the other. I have two hard drives. I installed Vista one the first one, then later on, XP on the second one - without the first drive connected. Both OSs see their drive as C:, so they can boot if they're the first boot drive in the BIOS. But can I get a normal dual boot going where the Vista boot loader menu can load XP? I've tried but get ntldr missing and similar errors depending on how I do it. Basically, I don't want to have to go into the BIOS every time I want to load the other OS. Help?	george12 (7)
587862	2007-09-04 14:11:00	you could use a third party boot loader....several free ones out there	drcspy (146)
587863	2007-09-05 01:06:00	you could use a third party boot loader....several free ones out there Vistaboot Pro or BCEdit	intel hunter (6666)
587864	2007-09-05 03:50:00	I used BCEdit to get the option to load XP in the first place. It doesn't seem to work though. I think usually Vista is loaded on drive E, instead of them both being on drive C. I think XP loads as drive E:, but was installed as drive C:, causing the problems. Is there any solution other than re-installing Vista? Edit: Here's what I did wrong: neosmart.net	george12 (7)
587865	2007-09-05 04:34:00	All sorted, thanks for your help people.	george12 (7)
587866	2007-09-05 05:34:00	All sorted, thanks for your help people. If you don't mind me asking, what did you do to fix it?	intel hunter (6666)
587867	2007-09-05 05:45:00	If you don't mind me asking, what did you do to fix it? Hi, Sorry, I should have explained: Because the PC was booting from drive C:, I needed to copy the boot files (ntdetect.com, ntldr and boot.ini) to C: (the Vista drive). I then needed to change boot.ini to rdisk(1) to point to the other drive. My problem is that I was trying disk(1) not rdisk(1), among other things. Now both Vista and XP see their drive as C: and the other OS's drive as E:, which is fine.	george12 (7)
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