Big multi-booting problem

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Vermin

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Hi there. I had a computer with two harddisks and with Vista, and I tried to dualboot it with XP (one OS per harddisk, I've heard about some troubles putting XP and Vista together on one harddisks with two partitions) . Well XP works fine now (I'm using it right now:D), but I don't get a dual-boot menu when booting. I still have Vista on my C-drive and Xp on my E-drive, but I can't get into Vista. In Explorer I can still see the C(Vista)-harddrive and all the programs, so it's not really lost. I might have to install some kinda program or change my boot.ini, but the problem is, I don't know how to:confused:.

If this first problem is solved I'd like to tri-boot my pc with Ubuntu:D. The harddisk which contains XP has two partitions (it had when I got the drive, and I was too lazy to change that:P)
And I'm not sure if I can just install Ubuntu, and immediately have a tri-boot-menu when booting. (I've once dualbooted something before, can't remember what exactly, and I automatically got that menu)

Plz somebody help:eek:!
 
go ahead and install ubuntu now. if you install ubuntu AFTER xp and vista, ubuntu's bootloader,GRUB, will detect xp and vista. when you intsall ubuntu, make sure you create a SWAP partition twice the size of your ram, by going to manual configuration when selecting ubuntu's partion size. then, whenever the pc starts up, the GRUB bootloader menu will show-up, and from there you can select xp, vista, or ubuntu. it's exactly what i did to get my dual-boot system.
 
regarding your first problem... you have to install vista AFTER XP... it can't be the other way.. you will have to install vista again.. then it will recognize XP and both will load.. after that u can install Ubuntu on a separate partition as well...
 
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