Dual Boot XP & Vista

d3adpoetic

d3adpoetic

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Theyre both on their own SATA drives.

Is there a way to dual boot so i have the option of which one to go to because it auto boots Vista, and i dont know a way for it to boot XP without unplugging the Vista drive before hand.

Vista was installed before, and i wanted to test some things in XP without reformatting everything so i installed it on my second drive.

Thanks.

EDIT: Nevermind, figured it out.
 
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i got the answer from here:

http://www.tweakvista.com/articles/39206/how-to-dual-boot-xp-and-vista/

had to enter those 4 lines of code in the command prompt:

bcdedit /create {ntldr} /d "Windows XP"
bcdedit /set {ntldr} device boot
bcdedit /set {ntldr} path \ntldr
bcdedit /displayorder {ntldr} /addlast

when i did the first one it said it already existed, but i kept typing the rest and it said it was completed successfully. I restarted my comp and a boot list came up with vista and "earlier version of windows" in a list that i could choose from.

works nicely.
 
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