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Old March 5th, 2007, 03:24 PM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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Dual boot XP/Vista

I have a machine with XP pro installed on the primary/master drive. I have vista installed on a secondary/slave drive. Is there a way to change the xp boot ini file and dual boot. I really would rather not use the Vista boot manager.

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There is VistaBoot: http://www.pcauthority.com.au/downlo...ot-pro-21.aspx

You can probably change the boot order using this software.

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I think not matter what you do you end up using the vista bootloader, EasyBCD and vistaboot just allow you to make changes to the vista loader. I do know one thing forusre you can not make vista boot from the win xp boot.ini files!
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