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XP wont boot with Vista on SATA

Postby Techbug » Sun Mar 04, 2007 12:00 am

Have XP on IDE Channel 1 (master)
Vista on first SATA

Created the following entries, Vista boots ok from the boot menu, but when trying to Boot XP, computer just resets

Have tried changing rdisk(0) to rdisk(1) as seen in a previous thread.

Entry #
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Name: Microsoft Windows Vista
BCD ID: {current}
Boot Drive: C:
Windows Drive: C:
System Bootloader: \Windows\system32\winload.exe
Windows Directory: \Windows

Entry # 2
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Name: Microsoft Windows XP Professional
BCD ID: {ntldr}
Boot Drive: F:
Windows Drive:
System Bootloader: \ntldr
Windows Directory:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
Last edited by Techbug on Sun Mar 04, 2007 12:07 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Postby kd1966 » Sun Mar 04, 2007 12:05 am

Hi and welcome to PROnetworks! I've moved your topic here, as this issue is more related to Vista and your hardware mix and not a specific issue with our VistaBootPRO program. You may need to go into your BIOS and see which HDD is set to boot first, now that you have a SATA HDD in there. This is a known issue when dual/multi booting, and is more hardware related than anything else. If you could, post a screenshot of your Vista Disk Mgmt console. Also if you haven't PHYSICALLY changed the location of your XP install, then DO NOT change the boot.ini
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