Re: Dual boot: Vista and Vista on 2 Hard Drives?

On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:17:36 +0100, Nigel Molesworth
<reply@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

There are many articles on how to dual boot Vista and XP, but I want to dual
boot Vista and Vista, with an existing installation, on 2 Hard Drives.

Currently I switch these in the BIOS, but I'd much rather chose at a later
stage, can this be done?

Use the bootrec /rebuildbcd command.
<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392>


Why? Because I keep one of the drives for random software that I rarely use.

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