multi boot XP por and Vista

Posted: 10-04-2006, 02:06 PM
I have 2 HDD in my system. Drive 1 is XP Pro and Drive 2 is Vista. The only
way I was able to install vista was to unplug drive 1 from the motherboard
and setup 2 as the first drive. I would like to be able to multi-boot between
the two OS. How can I modify the Boot.ini to achieve this?
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John Barnes
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Re: multi boot XP por and Vista
Posted: 10-04-2006, 02:17 PM
You should make the Vista boot drive your system drive. First in boot
priority and active partition. Download and install VistaBootPro and add an
entry for a legacy system. Copy your ntldr, ntdetect.com and boot.ini files
onto the Vista boot drive. Modify the boot.ini to point to the drive with XP
on it.

"John Czahor" <JohnCzahor@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have 2 HDD in my system. Drive 1 is XP Pro and Drive 2 is Vista. The only
> way I was able to install vista was to unplug drive 1 from the motherboard
> and setup 2 as the first drive. I would like to be able to multi-boot
> between
> the two OS. How can I modify the Boot.ini to achieve this?

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John Barnett MVP
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Re: multi boot XP por and Vista
Posted: 10-04-2006, 04:37 PM
there shouldn't be any problem installing Vista to a second hard drive. My
system is set up that way. Windows XP Home is on partition 1 and XP Pro is
on partition 2 of drive 0, while Vista is on partition 1 of drive 1. I've
never experienced any problems with this scenario.

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"John Czahor" <JohnCzahor@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have 2 HDD in my system. Drive 1 is XP Pro and Drive 2 is Vista. The only
> way I was able to install vista was to unplug drive 1 from the motherboard
> and setup 2 as the first drive. I would like to be able to multi-boot
> between
> the two OS. How can I modify the Boot.ini to achieve this?

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