BOOT MENU???

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I have XP on my primary master and installed Vista on my secondary master.
When I boot I do NOT get a boot menu screen giving me a choice of which OS
to load.
Any suggestions?

David
 
You need to change your boot priority. The drive with the Vista MBR needs
to be first in your BIOS boot priority, the XP MBR seems to be first now
(unless you installed XP after Vista).
 
Yes - I've tried that too. If I do as you suggest then my box boots up into
Vista.
What I'm looking for is a way to get to choose which OS to boot to, without
having to go into the bios every time. I read that Vista supposedly
automatically installs a boot menu, which stays onscreen for 30 seconds,
which allows the user (me) to choose which OS to boot to.
Any Ideas?

David
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With your system booting into Vista, download and install VistaBootPro
(http://www.vistabootpro.org/) add a legacy system to the boot menu
pointing to your XP drive. If you then boot up and you get an ntldr
missing, copy three files from your XP drive (ntldr, ntdetect.com and
boot.ini) to the drive with the Vista boot file on it. You may have to fix
the boot.ini entry to point to the XP system. If you can't figure it out
directly, you can go into the Recovery console on the XP install CD and do a
bootcfg /rebuild
 
Which build are you using David?. Same thing happened to me with build
5728.
And Yes, like you, the pc booted into the OS on whichever hard drive was 1st
in the boot priority.
I notice that VistaBootPro has been suggested to you, but it's really a
workaround. You *should* have encountered a boot menu when you rebooted
after Vista installation.
 
Which build are you using David?. Same thing happened to me with build
5728.
And Yes, like you, the pc booted into the OS on whichever hard drive was
1st in the boot priority.
I notice that VistaBootPro has been suggested to you, but it's really a
workaround. You *should* have encountered a boot menu when you rebooted
after Vista installation.
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VistaBootPro is not a work around. It's a tool to repair the problem.
There are other tools that can do it as well, including EasyBDC and the one
that's native to Vista, bcdedit.exe. The first two tools provide a GUI
making it a bit easier.
 
Rock said:
VistaBootPro is not a work around. It's a tool to repair the problem.
There are other tools that can do it as well, including EasyBDC and the
one that's native to Vista, bcdedit.exe. The first two tools provide a
GUI making it a bit easier.
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"It's a tool to repair the problem"
That's what I mean by workaround.
 
Since I haven't received the DVD's for RC1, I am still using beta2. I was
unable to install the latest version of EasyBCD and had to go back and
reinstall the original version. Incidentally, VistaBootPro is on version 3
and I haven't tried that yet either. Hoping to get my DVD (unscratched,
unlike the only person to receive them so far) before RTM. :-((
 
"It's a tool to repair the problem"
That's what I mean by workaround.
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Ack..I knew that's what you meant. What I don't know is why I posted that
way distinguishing between tool and work around. I just wanted to make sure
the OP knew there were several program options to edit the Vista and Windows
boot loader. I think it was being really tired. Sorry about that.
 
"It's a tool to repair the problem"
That's what I mean by workaround.
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Ack..of course that's you meant. What I don't know is why I posted that
way distinguishing between tool and work around. I just wanted to make sure
the OP knew there were several program options to edit the Vista and Windows
boot loader. I think it was being really tired. Sorry about that.
 
Have had several successes with dual boot - installed Vista via XP to second
HD- Third-party dual boot utilities not required.
 
Ron is there any place where David the OP specified he installed Vista and
then XP after Vista? Because that's what that MSKB keys to.

CH
 
It is strongly implied from the OP's wording that XP was prior-installed.
The MSKB article is not quite relevant.
 
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