Two HD dual boot

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Hi,
I installed Vista cleanly on a new drive on my computer (just wanted to be
on the safe side). I have XP on my C-Drive and the disc that I installed
Vista on I made my D-Drive. Is there now anyway I can edit the boot.ini file
on my C-Drive to point to the boot configuration file for D-Drive (the one
with Vista on it) to make it a dual boot configuration. The drive I installed
Vista on was considered the primary drive (C-Drive) at the time I installed
Vista because I unhooked the sata cable of my then current C-Drive and put
the new drive to install Vista on in it's place. But know in order to use
both OS I have to keep switching the cables back and forth. Hence my
question. Thanks in advance for the help. I tried this but it didn't work:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home
Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows Vista"
/noexecute=optin /fastdetect

The second drive just has one partition on it.
 
Try this: http://www.pro-networks.org/vistabootpro/intro.php
Hopefully that'll help you out a bit :o)

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Hi,
I installed Vista cleanly on a new drive on my computer (just wanted to be
on the safe side). I have XP on my C-Drive and the disc that I installed
Vista on I made my D-Drive. Is there now anyway I can edit the boot.ini file
on my C-Drive to point to the boot configuration file for D-Drive (the one
with Vista on it) to make it a dual boot configuration. The drive I installed
Vista on was considered the primary drive (C-Drive) at the time I installed
Vista because I unhooked the sata cable of my then current C-Drive and put
the new drive to install Vista on in it's place. But know in order to use
both OS I have to keep switching the cables back and forth. Hence my
question. Thanks in advance for the help. I tried this but it didn't work:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home
Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows Vista"
/noexecute=optin /fastdetect
Click to expand...

The second physical disk is rdisk(1).
 
Even if you get the right boot.ini configuration, if you do not switch your
cables, or better yet, use a bios setting to switch which drive is the first
drive (which would obviate the need to change boot.ini), wouldn't Vista or XP
see itself as being the D: drive and complain since you installed when it was
the first or C: drive?
I didn't follow that other post which claimed some Vista boot configuration
settings could make it work.
 
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