Default Boot Drive?

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Okay, so I got a new system (AMD Athlon Dual Core, 3GHz, Vista Home Premium,
500GB SATA HDD), installed a new SATA drive (250GB), and installed WinXP on
the new drive (I undid all the cable to the Vista drive first). Now, I can
boot off Vista or XP, but the default system is XP. I have to go to the Boot
menu to bring Vista up. Is there a way to set the Vista drive as the default
drive? Can I simply switch the drive cables? The jumpers no longer do
Master/Slave, so I'm not sure on this. Any help will be appreciated.
(BTW, when I boot up in Vista, and use a boot up controller program like
Easy BCD, it does not show XP as a boot option).

LMO
 
LMO said:
Okay, so I got a new system (AMD Athlon Dual Core, 3GHz, Vista Home
Premium, 500GB SATA HDD), installed a new SATA drive (250GB), and
installed WinXP on the new drive (I undid all the cable to the Vista drive
first). Now, I can boot off Vista or XP, but the default system is XP. I
have to go to the Boot menu to bring Vista up. Is there a way to set the
Vista drive as the default drive? Can I simply switch the drive cables?
The jumpers no longer do Master/Slave, so I'm not sure on this. Any help
will be appreciated.
(BTW, when I boot up in Vista, and use a boot up controller program like
Easy BCD, it does not show XP as a boot option).

LMO
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Hi, some motherboards allow you to set the boot order of the hard drives in
the BIOS. This is how I overcame the exact issue you have using my Asus
Crosshair mobo.


Andy
 
Okay, so I got a new system (AMD Athlon Dual Core, 3GHz, Vista Home Premium,
500GB SATA HDD), installed a new SATA drive (250GB), and installed WinXP on
the new drive (I undid all the cable to the Vista drive first). Now, I can
boot off Vista or XP, but the default system is XP. I have to go to the Boot
menu to bring Vista up. Is there a way to set the Vista drive as the default
drive? Can I simply switch the drive cables?
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You can switch cables. However, the bios has a Hard Disk Boot Priority
or Hard Disk Drives setting that allows you to move the desired drive
to the top of the list.
The jumpers no longer do
Master/Slave, so I'm not sure on this. Any help will be appreciated.
(BTW, when I boot up in Vista, and use a boot up controller program like
Easy BCD, it does not show XP as a boot option).
Click to expand...

It wouldn't, since you disconnected the Vista drive while installing
XP.
 
Unplug the Sata cable for the XP, boot to Vista, shutdown, reconnect XP
drive. Vista drive should now be default.

Woody
 
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