re: dual booting Monday, July 17, 2006 at 5:56 pm Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by JACK (3 messages posted) I have XP Pro on the main hard drive number 0, and I have a second HD as HD 1, this had no OS so I directed the Vista installer to use the space on that drive Now it will boot into the OS Selection menu in DOS? or whatever it is, and then I can select XP on the first drive or Vista on the 2nd hard drive...I made sure to keep the beta OS off of the working XP OS by putting them on different drives, AND partitons too (of course) maybe your experiences will vary but I do agree that the old OS should be "in place" before you apply the vista install to your system On Thursday, July 13, 2006 at 5:35 pm, bmhome1 wrote: >As in the past, the oldest Windows OS should get installed first with latest then >last. > >In this case, particularly significant because Vista alters the XP boot .ini to add >the multi-boot using the new bootloader screen. > >In a similar situation, I had to reinstall XP, THEN Vista to regain dual booting >again. I found editing the Vista boot bcdedit file impossible to get a handle on. > > >I was able to restore a XP drive image, reinstall Vista, then erase that and restore >a Vista drive image so the process was way less painful. Written in response to: re: dual booting (bmhome1: Thursday, July 13, 2006 at 5:35 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] dual booting (stuke: Thu, Jul 13, 2006, 8:01 am) re: dual booting (bmhome1: Thu, Jul 13, 2006, 5:35 pm) re: dual booting (JACK: Mon, Jul 17, 2006, 5:56 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Vista Discussion Forum