Hi there. Vista is installed on a single 20gig drive (IDE). After I installed that i discovered raid drivers compatible for vista for it to recognise my 2 SATA drives on the mobo RAID [ASROCK 939 Dual SATA2 [hdd's are single SATA, not SATA2]]. Raid is striped not mirrored. XP is the first partition on the Raid array and was present prior to installing vista. i can, by selecting which drive the system boots from enter either vista or xp. I entered vista and installed the VBPro3.1 and made the 2 entries 1 for vista on the raid and one for xp on the E: drive as shown in windows explorer - in fact, at this stage, i think that the vista partition was already listed in the OS list in VBPro. I told VBPro to install the Bootloader. upon rebooting, the boot loader was there, but i was only able to enter vista from the menu. if i tried to go into windows xp [as i had labelled it in the menu there], the pc would think for 1 second on a blank screen and then the machine would reset and cycle through POST back to the bootloader.
I tried all this again in windows xp, after installing net frame' 2.0 but within xp i was unable to add any operating systems to the OS list for the bootloader menu. everytime i clicked apply for a vista os or windows legacy, it just added nothing and reset the tickboxes / operating system name to blanks ready for me to add another OS.
Does this help?
many thanks for getting back to me so quickly on this issue. If i can't get VBPro to run, i can still get into the operating systems by the mobo hdd boot menu, but it would be nice to have a smoother choice...
regards
Jimbo
