dual boot with vista and xp

[presence06]

I have Windows Xp Home SP2 installed on what used to be my main hdd 160 gig, and I have Vista installed on what used to be my back up 80gig harddrive. I unplugged my 160 gig, and installed vista on the 80gig, but there is no dual boot screen when I turn the computer on


How can/do I set this up to let me choose which os to run?

[JayMan]

Ofcourse there isn't a dual boot screen... Vista didn't even know about the 160GB drive when you installed it, so how could it reference ya WindowsXP install?

The way u've got it installed, you will have to use your BIOS to select 1st boot device to choose which Harddisk to boot off.

You may be able to edit the boot.cfg/ini file or whatever Vista uses to add the WinXP partition to it... But i don't know enough about doing that so i'll stop there...

JayMan

[taz480]

Leave the 160GB plugged in and just reinstall Vista. I, Like prolly a lot of folks haven't had the pleasure of playing with Vista yet but Im sure the setup has disk and partition selections for where you want to install it just like XP. Then Vista will see the other OS.

[RicheemxX]

if you are still trying to get this fixed you might try vista boot pro http://www.pro-networks.org/vistabootpro/intro.php