Choosing OS on start up?

[HoldenBurn1000]

I currently have two HDD's both SATA, one has Vista Ultimate and one has XP Pro, At the moment I have the Vista drive set as the drive to boot from, but I would really like to have the option of which drive to boot from at start up.

I know I have had this before but I cant remeber if it was with two drives or one partitioned!

Come on guys there must be a way

[HoldenBurn1000]

No1? really wanted to sort this tonight

[0iD]

Backup the Boot.ini first & then mod it to add the XP part

[HoldenBurn1000]

sorry not sure what you mean

[0iD]

Try GAG http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/...sk/GAG-d.shtml
Should work

[redlight]

I think this is whay you want
http://www.vistabootpro.org/

[HoldenBurn1000]

Thanks guys, tring GAG first, will see hjow it goes

[directhex]

amazing how many people think messing about with bioses will make things easier

vista would have automatically created a boot menu if you had allowed it to

[HoldenBurn1000]

Well I dont really want to go messing with programs. I had my xp HDD unplugged when I Installed vista and now I have it plugged back in I would like the option of which HDD to boot from.

I thought it would be a easy but apparntly not lol.

[redlight]

I thought it would be a easy but apparntly not lol.

It is with Vistaboot

[directhex]

Well I dont really want to go messing with programs. I had my xp HDD unplugged when I Installed vista and now I have it plugged back in I would like the option of which HDD to boot from.

I thought it would be a easy but apparntly not lol.

http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1

will allow you to configure the vista boot loader, and add the xp entry you didn't want it to create

[CrazyMonkey]

http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1

will allow you to configure the vista boot loader, and add the xp entry you didn't want it to create

Actually Vista never asked me if i wanted Dual boot with XP pro on the drive aswell... Sorted it quickly by entering a line in the boot,.

[d3fiant]

I think this is whay you want
http://www.vistabootpro.org/

Second redlight, vistaboot is simple but very effective

[Koolpc]

Vistaboot looks great. Will it alow you to setup a boot where XP is on one hard drive and Vista is on the other?

[charleski]

Vistaboot looks great. Will it alow you to setup a boot where XP is on one hard drive and Vista is on the other?

Yes, VistaBootPro can do this if you had a problem with the original install. The forums over at PROnetworks contain a lot of help on non-standard installation patterns.