can you have more than 2 operating systems with vistaboot, i have windows xp, xp64, and now vista, but i can only get two of them to boot, will vistaboot add a third? just want to check befor i screw anything up..

Thanks

Yes you can . In fact there is even a way to add the entry with VistaBootPRO. As long as its Windows

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gorf24 wrote:

can you have more than 2 operating systems with vistaboot, i have windows xp, xp64, and now vista, but i can only get two of them to boot, will vistaboot add a third? just want to check befor i screw anything up.. Thanks

Hi, and welcome to PROnetworks!

I am successfully runing 6 OS's through VistaBootPRO - 4 different Vista versions, MCE 2005, and XP Pro. As there are quite a few different boot scenarios, as well as hard drive configurations to consider, if you run into any difficulties, just let us know

Yep, at one time I also had 6 different OS installations - 1 XP and 5 Vista builds

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Thanks for the fast replys, but i want to get this right if i use vistaboot pro
i can add a new boot entry under the manage entries?... and thats it?..

Thanks gary

gorf24 wrote:

Thanks for the fast replys, but i want to get this right if i use vistaboot pro i can add a new boot entry under the manage entries?... and thats it?.. Thanks gary

Yes Gary you can - however in order to add an OS, it has to be "present" in the system

I added the os and it shows up when the system boots i get vista, windows xp, and xp64 they are all there and installed, but when i try to boot the xp64 thats is on drive g: i get the message boot.ini file not found and it boots drive C all the time, except for vista that os will boot, I have copyied my backup file of boot.ini to drive C: but when i reboot i get the same message then i recheck drive C to see if the ini file is ok, but its gone, so the ini file seems to be getting deleted for some reason when i reboot... Any suggestion on this problem...

Thanks gary

gorf24 wrote:

I added the os and it shows up when the system boots i get vista, windows xp, and xp64 they are all there and installed, but when i try to boot the xp64 thats is on drive g: i get the message boot.ini file not found and it boots drive C all the time, except for vista that os will boot, I have copyied my backup file of boot.ini to drive C: but when i reboot i get the same message then i recheck drive C to see if the ini file is ok, but its gone, so the ini file seems to be getting deleted for some reason when i reboot... Any suggestion on this problem... Thanks gary

Ok, so you are saying that you DO in fact have all 3 of these OS's installed, but cannot access the x64-XP?

I think we need some more info on your setup, starting with what is your System drive? (The drive where your FIRST OS was installed) More knowledgable folks should be here shortly to help out

I removed my XP disk from the system, hooked up another drive and loaded Vista, then added my XP disk back to the system. Is there any way to mod the bootloader in either operating system to include the other in the boot menu? I don't have a BIOS hotkey boot menu option at startup, and even when I try to reorder the boot priority in the BIOS, It only likes the bootloader of the disk designated as "Master". Is there anything I can do to be able to dual-boot (that will enable me put the side panel back on and put the screws to it)?