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Changing default OS in mutiboot w/Vista 64 bit

Posted: 10-04-2006, 08:17 AM
I have Vista 64 bit on one hdd & XP home sp2 on another. Vista came
2nd, & set itself up as the default. Since my main OS is still XP, I
want it to be the default. This cannot be accomplished with boot.ini (I
guess that was too simple) but apparently rather with an arcane utility
called BCDEDIT.EXE. When I try running it in Vista however, I get a
very brief command line box flash on the screen. No time to even read
what it says, let alone DO anything. So I'm wondering if anyone can
tell me how to make my XP installation the default, using BCDEDIT.EXE or
otherwise. Anyone do this with a boot manager? I'm using XP 90% of the
time, I want the machine to start IT unless I tell it otherwise, NOT
VISTA. I'm concerned if I don't do this JUUUUUUST right, I won't be
able to access EITHER OS ;-(

TIA
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