Guest wwjd5502 Posted June 28, 2008 Posted June 28, 2008 I purchased a laptop with Vista. I then installed XP to a windows directory called windowxp. When completed it booted up into XP but I lost the ability to boot into Vista. I then repaired the boot loader for Vista and then booted into Vista. Bothe seem to be working fine, Q. Is there a way to bring up a dual boot menu on startup to chose which OS i want to use by keeping them on the same C drive?
Guest PA Bear [MS MVP] Posted June 28, 2008 Posted June 28, 2008 Re: Dual Boot on same Partition See http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup/browse_frm/thread/6d3ca079736d958f or any other of these previous conversations: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=dual%20boot%20vista%20xp%20mvp&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf8&um=1&sa=N&tab=wg -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002 AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net DTS-L http://dts-l.net/ wwjd5502 wrote: > I purchased a laptop with Vista. I then installed XP to a windows > directory > called windowxp. When completed it booted up into XP but I lost the > ability > to boot into Vista. I then repaired the boot loader for Vista and then > booted into Vista. Bothe seem to be working fine, Q. Is there a way to > bring up a dual boot menu on startup to chose which OS i want to use by > keeping them on the same C drive?
Guest Timothy Daniels Posted June 29, 2008 Posted June 29, 2008 Re: Dual Boot on same Partition "wwjd5502" wrote: >I purchased a laptop with Vista. I then installed XP to a windows directory > called windowxp. When completed it booted up into XP but I lost the ability > to boot into Vista. I then repaired the boot loader for Vista and then booted > into Vista. Bothe seem to be working fine, [....] How do you choose between them now? I can only imagine that you set the "active" flag in the appropriate partition. *TimDaniels*
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