Hi,
I had just Windows XP Pro SP2 in my PC (C: drive). Then I created two new partitions and moved my personal files to E: and installed Windows Vista in D:. After Vista installation I thought that I would automatically get a dual boot option at boot up but it goes straight into Vista. Then I found VistaPro and I’m using it to boot up into Vista or XP. The annoyance is that I have to boot up into one OS, launch VistaPro, change the default OS, save the changes and restart the PC. Even that I looked and tried for a way to get the boot option at the boot up I didn’t succeed. The details from my bootpro are as follows:

Windows Boot Manager
--------------------
identifier {bootmgr}
device partition=C:
description Windows Boot Manager
locale es-ES
inherit {globalsettings}
default {current}
displayorder {ntldr}
{current}
toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}
timeout 2

Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {current}
device partition=D:
path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate
locale es-ES
inherit {bootloadersettings}
osdevice partition=D:
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {fa80f901-b1d6-11db-ba8f-b6d2a5c9e3ae}
nx OptIn
custom:47000005 301989892
3

Resume from Hibernate
---------------------
identifier {fa80f901-b1d6-11db-ba8f-b6d2a5c9e3ae}
device partition=D:
path \Windows\system32\winresume.exe
description Windows Resume Application
locale es-ES
inherit {resumeloadersettings}
filepath \hiberfil.sys
pae No
debugoptionenabled No

Windows Memory Tester
---------------------
identifier {memdiag}
device partition=C:
path \boot\memtest.exe
description Herramienta de diagn stico de memoria de Windows
locale es-ES
inherit {globalsettings}
badmemoryaccess Yes
custom:47000005 301989892
2

Windows Legacy OS Loader
------------------------
identifier {ntldr}
device partition=C:
path \ntldr
description Microsoft Windows XP Professional
custom:47000005 301989892
6

EMS Settings
------------
identifier {emssettings}
bootems Yes

Debugger Settings
-----------------
identifier {dbgsettings}
debugtype Serial
debugport 1
baudrate 115200

RAM Defects
-----------
identifier {badmemory}

Global Settings
---------------
identifier {globalsettings}
inherit {dbgsettings}
{emssettings}
{badmemory}

Boot Loader Settings
--------------------
identifier {bootloadersettings}
inherit {globalsettings}

Resume Loader Settings
----------------------
identifier {resumeloadersettings}
inherit {globalsettings}

Please your help

Paul2296

Hi and welcome to PROnetworks! It appears your timeout setting is set to 2........ this means that by the time your Vista boot menu comes up/displays, you probably have about a second or less to press a button and it boots directly to whatever the default OS is. You can change this in VistaBootPRO 3.1 as well. Enjoy the site!

Thanks for your replay and help. Actually I set up the timeout setting to 2 in order to minimize the annoyance at the reboot process. I already tried it with longer values (15, 20 secs) without success.

Can you boot to vista and give us a screenshot of VBP to show us how your windows installs are arranged?

I'm sorry, I couldn't insert the screenshot in this replay. I do not know how to insert it. Please let me know how it works.

Paul2296

go to: http://imageshack.us/

upload your imagefile; copy the url and put it between [img] [/img]

Below is the screenshot's URL Hope I did it Ok. (Link fixed by kd1966)

http://img502.imageshack.us/my.php?image=vbptv5.jpg http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/72

I'm also copying here the content of my C:\boot dir, just in the case it lacks some necesary files.

Microsoft Windows [Versión 6.0.6000]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. Reservados todos los derechos.

C:\Boot>dir /a
El volumen de la unidad C es Windows XP
El número de serie del volumen es: BC72-30E8

Directorio de C:\Boot

02/01/2007 04:31 <DIR> .
02/01/2007 04:31 <DIR> ..
03/06/2007 13:59 262,144 BCD
03/06/2007 13:59 21,504 BCD.LOG
02/01/2007 04:31 65,536 bootstat.dat
02/01/2007 04:31 <DIR> cs-CZ
02/01/2007 04:31 <DIR> da-DK
02/01/2007 04:31 <DIR> de-DE
02/01/2007 04:31 <DIR> el-GR
02/01/2007 04:31 <DIR> en-US
02/01/2007 04:31 <DIR> es-ES
02/01/2007 04:31 <DIR> fi-FI
02/01/2007 04:31 <DIR> Fonts
02/01/2007 04:31 <DIR> fr-FR
02/01/2007 04:31 <DIR> hu-HU
02/01/2007 04:31 <DIR> it-IT
02/01/2007 04:31 <DIR> ja-JP
02/01/2007 04:31 <DIR> ko-KR
11/02/2006 04:51 386,664 memtest.exe
02/01/2007 04:31 <DIR> nb-NO
02/01/2007 04:31 <DIR> nl-NL
02/01/2007 04:31 <DIR> pl-PL
02/01/2007 04:31 <DIR> pt-BR
02/01/2007 04:31 <DIR> pt-PT
02/01/2007 04:31 <DIR> ru-RU
02/01/2007 04:31 <DIR> sv-SE
02/01/2007 04:31 <DIR> tr-TR
02/01/2007 04:31 <DIR> zh-CN
02/01/2007 04:31 <DIR> zh-HK
02/01/2007 04:31 <DIR> zh-TW
4 archivos 735,848 bytes
26 dirs 16,220,196,864 bytes libres

C:\Boot>