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[NT50 Profile]

Now that you are booting into Vista.

This Guide if followed properly should get your XP back.

Adjust the drive letters as needed for your Disk Management.

[kd1966 Profile YIM]

Hi,

Following the above, XP did not boot (Black Screen)
ANd Vista Would not boot.

Had to boot into XP using Bios Boot MenuThen run VistaBootPro and Make the relevant entries.

Rebooted.

VistaBoot menu.

Vista Boots

XP does not.

Had me worried a little there

Regards

Peter

Your description leads me to suspect you have a mixture of IDE & SATA drives............ if so, this is a known issue and sometimes quite difficult to remedy, based on the types of partitions that exist. Please let us know....

[Grav!ty Profile]

PeterLeeds, if you follow the basic principles involved you should get both your installations dual booting

Windows XP needs the following files to be on the system drive for it to be able to boot; boot.ini NTDETECT.COM, ntldr and Windows Vista needs these files to be on the system drive for it to be able to boot; Boot (folder and contents, most importantly the BCD store) and bootmgr.

Once you have that done then use VistaBootPRO to create whichever entry you do not have in your boot menu and reinstall the Vista bootloader so that both installations are pulled into the Vista bootloader.

As KD1966 says, a combination of PATA and SATA drives can cause issues but if you maintain one of the drives as your boot drive and keep it at that, so that the system drive doesn't keep changing, you should be able to sort out a true dual boot from the Vista boot menu.

[PeterLeeds Profile]

Hi,

Complete Computer Specification below, No PATA drives at all

I suspected the Gigabyte I-Ram might be causing a problem so that is disconnected.

boot.ini, ntdetect, ntldr are all in the root of drive C: (XP Drive)
boot.ini, ntdetect, ntldr are all in the root of G: (Vista Drive)
Boot Folder with BCD in the root of G
Drive 0 which is G: (the Vista Drive) is set in the BIOS to be the primary boot drive.

Drive C: is 1 Raptor and Drive G: the Other Raptor

The Raptors are SATA 1 the other WD Disc SATA 2 but I can't see that making a difference.

The previous Screen Shots still hold true.

The Vista version is Enterprise.

The boot menu gives me a choice of
Windows Vista
Windows XP

Windows Memory Diagnostics Tool

Vista & Memory Diagnostics run OK, Windows XP gives me a blank screen.

Regards

Peter

Computer Specs
Silverstone TJ09B (Black) TEMJIN Case
1000W Enermax EG1000EWL V2 Galaxy Modular PSU
Asus Striker Exteme NF680i SLI, S 775 MB
Intel Core 2 Duo Extreme X6800, Socket 775, 2.93 GHz, 1066MHz FSB
4 x 1Gb Corsair DDR2 XMS2 Dominator, PC8500
Noctua NH-U12F CPU Heatpipe Heatsink and fan
4 x Noctua NF-S12 1200 RPM 120mm Quiet Fans
1Gb EVGA 7950GX2, GX2, PCI-E (x16), Mem 1200 MHz, GPU 500 MHz
2 x 150 Gb Western Digital WD1500AHFD Raptor X, SATA150, 10000 rpm
1 500 Gb Western Digital WD5000YS RE2, SATA300
2 LiteOn 16x DVD+/-RW/RAM SATA black

Gigabyte I-RAM GC-Ramdisk Flash HDD (max 4gb DDR) Sata Interface
4Gb Major DDR PC2700 (333), 184 Pin, Non-ECC Unbuffered

[PeterLeeds Profile]

Hi,

After absolutely no success I have decided to start again.

What I would like is for Vista to be on Drive 0 and for this drive to be called C:

The Windows XP installed on Drive 1 and for this to be called G:

Drives D,E and F are all on Drive 2

How would I go about doing this?

Maybe disconnect all Hard Drives apart from Drive 0
Install Vista
Reconnect the other drives
Make sure D,E and F are as I want them
and that Drive 1 is called G:
From inside Vista Install XP onto Dive G.

Then use VistaBoot from Vista or from XP by using the bios boot menu to boot XP

Will this not work?

I realise that both operating systems would have to be re-installed.

Thanks

Peter

[mintt2 Profile]

i do not think u are allowed to install xp from vista
the install option will be greyed out
u need to boot using xp cd and do clean install at drive G

sorry did not read ur post from the beginning
do u have vista installer dvd? why not u install vista after xp?
unless u are like me who bought new computer which came with only vista recovery dvd and no vista installer dvd

u can read my post on install xp after vista with no vista dvd here
http://www.pro-networks.org/forum/viewt ... c&start=10

[NT50 Profile]

If you can install XP first....then install Vista.....

[PeterLeeds Profile]

OK,

Using another computer with 4 80GB Sata 2 Drives

Partitioned Drive 0 into 2
Using XP install created partitions in such a way that Drive 0 ended up with drive letters C: & G:

Installed XP on G:
From within XP installed Vista on G:
Used VistaBoot now the boot manager works booting into either XP or Vista.

But for some inexplicable reason Drive D shows as the Boot Drive in Disk Management, and contains the Boot Folder and Bootmgr.

All our computers have 4 drives or partitions.

C: System
D: Setup Discs for Program Installation Discs & Downloads etc.
E: Program Files
F: Data

I Change the Program Files Folder in the Registry of XP to point to E:\Program Files.

The Boot disc being Drive D presents 1 problem and the second problem is can the "program Files" and now "Program Data" be moved to Drive E: in Vista as easily as in XP.

Regards

Peter