Re: Duel Boot XP & Vista

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You don't say how you got the dual boot.
Did you install Vista and Vista created the dual boot?

If yes, Vista has put its boot files on the XP drive (C).
To use XP, you would have to repair the XP boot files.
Probably a repair install.

If you wanted to keep Vista, Vista will have to be on D and its boot files
on C.
I don't know if you can put the Vista boot files on D and have Vista still
boot saying it is on D.
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Ronald Sommer

"REDWAGON" <REDWAGON@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:CADB6337-218B-4248-A84F-D8008A3E8983@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
: Thanks Timothy for the information and suggestions. The reason I was
wanting
: to know was if I didn't want one or another of the OS's that was on that
: particular single HD, I could remove it and format the drive and use it
for a
: BU drive or slave drive along with the one I was using for the boot OS.
:
: I had thought about using the MBR commands but wasn't sure which one to
: change or what the changes would actually be.
:
: "Timothy Daniels" wrote:
:
: > There's a chance that nothing has to be done for the
: > HD that contains XP. It may be that the boot logic
: > on the Vista HD treats the XP HD as a mono-boot.
: > and just passes control to the MBR on the XP HD.
: > You can find this out by just disconnecting the Vista
: > HD, hitting the Start button, and seeing if XP boots
: > up.
: >
: > As for changes in the Vista HD, you can either just
: > ignore the XP choice in the boot menu, or inquire
: > at microsoft.pulbic.windows.vista.installation_setup
: > on how to change a dual-boot Vista to a mono-boot.
: >
: > With both OSes mono-booting, you can select which
: > one boots by changing the boot priority of their
: > respective HDs in the BIOS.
: >
: > *TimDaniels*
: >

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