Guest John Posted August 25, 2007 Posted August 25, 2007 Hi I have win xp pro on my primary SATA drive. I installed vista on secondary drive while the primary xp drive was switched off in the set-up, so the two installs are completely separate. My problem is how to boot in win of my choice at start-up. If I start normally it goes into xp. If I press F12 (its a dell pc) it gives me choice of cd or hard drive boots. Selecting hard drive boot takes me into xp. The only way I can go into Vista is to switch off primary cp disk in set-up. Is there a solution for this dual boot problem? Thanks Regards
Guest \NachtWacht\ Posted August 25, 2007 Posted August 25, 2007 Re: Vista does not boot from second drive John <John@nospam.infovis.co.uk> schreef in bericht news:uWXa3Y25HHA.5796@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > Hi > > I have win xp pro on my primary SATA drive. I installed vista on secondary > drive while the primary xp drive was switched off in the set-up, so the two > installs are completely separate. My problem is how to boot in win of my > choice at start-up. If I start normally it goes into xp. If I press F12 (its > a dell pc) it gives me choice of cd or hard drive boots. Selecting hard > drive boot takes me into xp. The only way I can go into Vista is to switch > off primary cp disk in set-up. Is there a solution for this dual boot > problem? > > Thanks > > Regards You can repair it with VistaBootPro. -- ____________________ >> NIGHTWATCHER << ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
Guest tfw48079 Posted August 26, 2007 Posted August 26, 2007 RE: Vista does not boot from second drive To do bual boot the way that you are trying to do, the pc bios would have to allow you to select which hard drive to boot. "John" wrote: > Hi > > I have win xp pro on my primary SATA drive. I installed vista on secondary > drive while the primary xp drive was switched off in the set-up, so the two > installs are completely separate. My problem is how to boot in win of my > choice at start-up. If I start normally it goes into xp. If I press F12 (its > a dell pc) it gives me choice of cd or hard drive boots. Selecting hard > drive boot takes me into xp. The only way I can go into Vista is to switch > off primary cp disk in set-up. Is there a solution for this dual boot > problem? > > Thanks > > Regards > > >
Guest dobey Posted August 26, 2007 Posted August 26, 2007 Re: Vista does not boot from second drive "John" <John@nospam.infovis.co.uk> wrote in message news:uWXa3Y25HHA.5796@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > Hi > > I have win xp pro on my primary SATA drive. I installed vista on secondary > drive while the primary xp drive was switched off in the set-up, so the > two installs are completely separate. My problem is how to boot in win of > my choice at start-up. If I start normally it goes into xp. If I press F12 > (its a dell pc) it gives me choice of cd or hard drive boots. Selecting > hard drive boot takes me into xp. The only way I can go into Vista is to > switch off primary cp disk in set-up. Is there a solution for this dual > boot problem? > Can you not select which particular physical hdd to boot from in the F12 menu? You should have just installed Vista with your XP drive in place and it would have automatically added you XP install to the boot menu. Sure you need to nuke the Vista partition when you want to get rid of it, but you can restore that at a later date.
Guest Timothy Daniels Posted August 26, 2007 Posted August 26, 2007 Re: Vista does not boot from second drive "John" wrote: > I have win xp pro on my primary SATA drive. I installed vista on > secondary drive while the primary xp drive was switched off in > the set-up, so the two installs are completely separate. My problem > is how to boot in win of my choice at start-up. If I start normally it > goes into xp. If I press F12 (its a dell pc) it gives me choice of cd > or hard drive boots. Selecting hard drive boot takes me into xp. > The only way I can go into Vista is to switch off primary cp disk > in set-up. Is there a solution for this dual boot problem? Since each OS was installed in isolation from any other, each has a mono-boot startup. And since they are on separate hard drives, you can use the BIOS to set which hard drive gets boot control (and thus, which OS is loaded). Just go into the BIOS (by pressing DEL or F12), and set which hard drive has highest priority in the Hard Drive Boot Order (*not* the Device Boot Order). The Hard Drive Boot Order prioritizes the hard drives only, and it determines which hard drive's MBR will get control at startup. (The Device Boot Order determines which *type* of device will get priority.) The Hard Drive Boot Order may be called by different names, such as "boot drive", depending on the BIOS. But whatever it's called, its setting will persist in ROM from startup to startup, so it's only necessary to set it when switching from one hard drive (i.e. OS) to another. The Hard Drive Boot Order, by the way, determines the meaning of "rdisk(x)" in WinXP's boot.ini file, where "x" ranges in value from 0 to 3, where "0" indicates the hard drive with the highest priority. In Vista, there is probably a similar correspondence. *TimDaniels*
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