How can I set uup dual boot after installation?

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I had a problem installing Vista from my XP system. I finally got it to go,
but it gave me sometihng I didn't want. I have two hard drives, one of which
has my XP system and the other that now has Vista. Installing vista changed
the the drive letters of my hard drive so that I now boot into Vista without
having the opportunity to boot with XP. Does anyoine have any ideas how I
can get to the XP part of my machine? I believe everything is intact, but I
don't know how to get to it.

THanks a bundle for your help.

Holden Herbert
 
HH said:
I had a problem installing Vista from my XP system. I finally got it to
go,
but it gave me sometihng I didn't want. I have two hard drives, one of
which
has my XP system and the other that now has Vista. Installing vista
changed
the the drive letters of my hard drive so that I now boot into Vista
without
having the opportunity to boot with XP. Does anyoine have any ideas how I
can get to the XP part of my machine? I believe everything is intact, but
I
don't know how to get to it.

THanks a bundle for your help.
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This is the easy way:
http://www.pro-networks.org/vistabootpro/
 
HH--

Vista Boot Pro should fix this, although I don't know why so many people
dual booting are loosing the ability to do it that should be there whether
you run Vista setup from XP or a restart. I could understand if you
installed Vista first but you didn't.

The drive letters won't change if you run the setup from XP. When you
finally got it to go, I'm reading betweent the lines that you couldn't
install from XP (some people can't and it gives a false error to boot
concerning the IDE controller not working in Vista which it will for some).
If you run setup from restart, the BIOS dictates a realignment of letters.
They will be the original letters when and if you boot back into XP, but
because MSFT refused to fix this, you loose restore points on Vista unless
you use workarounds like Bit Locker encryption or a 3rd party bootloader.

One tip that saves time and space:

While on your Vista desktop whether it is on another HD or not you can
shortcut to the XP desktop and access all your files and folders:

On Vista desktop use the file path:

XP Drive\Documents and Setting\HH's XP Profile\Desktop

You can shortcut to the Vista desktop from XP:

Vista Drive\Users\HH's Vista Profile\Desktop

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