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John_Wayne
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July 18th, 2008 02:00
I've looked for this..........
I looked to see if there were any questions about what I'm about to post and didn't really find any matches/solutions to my issue. I have Vista Ultimate installed on a 500gb HDD. I just finished installing XP on the secondary drive that holds 300gb. The only way I can switch OSs is if I switch which HDD boots first. I'm confused on how I can choose which one to boot without having to go in manually and change things around. Help please?
Timdrouilard
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Posted July 18th, 2008 11:00
If you had installed the older OS first, then the newer OS, you'd end up with a dual boot menu.
Since you did it the other way around, look for a program called VistaBootPro and give it a try. It should do what you're looking for.
John_Wayne
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Posted July 19th, 2008 00:00
I looked at the program, it doesn't say anything about a dual boot process...I would like the option to choose which OS to boot. For example, I start the PC I want to use the arrow keys up or down to choose between vista or XP. Is that making any sense? My PC already boots vista first and I get no such screen.Timdrouilard
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Posted July 19th, 2008 02:00
I believe that once you install VistaBootPro, it will automatically detect that you have two OS's installed, and create a dual-boot menu for you.John_Wayne
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Posted July 21st, 2008 21:00
Well, the program worked for the first few times, and now it seems that XP isn't recognized. Now what? I get some kind of boot error when trying to start up XP, but it goes so fast I can't see it, and then black screen. So I don't know.
chrisbg220
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Posted July 18th, 2008 05:00