no safe mode?

JimboJangles

JimboJangles

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I installed Vista on my D partition, and already had XP on my C partition.
After installing, upon the next reboot I realized that the boot menu had changed... things looked a bit different, and when asked which OS I wanted to run, I was only given the choice to go to a boot menu (from which I could choose safe mode) for Vista. When I highlight "Older Versions of Windows" (my copy of XP) then I don't have a safe mode option any more.

How can I get XP's safe mode option back? I don't need it yet, but I'd be willing to sacrifice Vista's safe mode any day if I had to, because I don't use it nearly as much as XP right now...
 
Well? ...9 views and zero replies... Any help?
(sorry for bumping it to the top, but I don't want this to just go ignored)
 
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The only thing that i can suggest is that, when you restart your computer at the very beginning keep pressing F1-F12 keep trying and something will come up. They wont make a version of Windows that you cant run partitions on.

Thanks,

Chris
 
That doesn't really help the problem... that just takes me to another boot menu, but I still have to go to the same one as usual to start windows...
I suppose since Vista is using a new boot loader instead of the boot.ini file I would just have to find some software to disable the vista boot loader before I could use XP's safe mode... and then I wouldn't be able to use Vista at all until I changed it back.
=S
Does anyone know of a way to change the way Vista's boot loader functions so that it still supports XP's safe mode function?
 
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