ajb62787 Posted January 15, 2008 CID Share Posted January 15, 2008 I have Windows Vista and Windows XP on my machine on 2 seperate partitions and I can not get the boot option at startup anymore. Is there something missing from the Vista partition that it only boots into XP and not give me the choice? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roco Posted January 15, 2008 CID Share Posted January 15, 2008 have a look in control panel >system > advanced > system start up > settings > time to display list of operating systems ( default 30 seconds ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajb62787 Posted January 15, 2008 Author CID Share Posted January 15, 2008 Only XP Pro is on the list for boot. Somehow, when I had a power failure a while back, it deleted Vista boot out of my computer but the Vista OS is still on the hard drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roco Posted January 15, 2008 CID Share Posted January 15, 2008 OK can you do a repair on vista with the disk , ? I have no experience with Vista , but I guess other members will know a better way , BTW, I only dual booted once b4 , win Me and Xp pro , and I nearly went back to M.e. , ............. for me = Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninjageek Posted January 15, 2008 CID Share Posted January 15, 2008 http://www.vistabootpro.org/ Its is free and should help you out. I understand you are wanting to dual boot. May not be a bad Idea to pick a os and just use that one. Vista just does not behave well with other os on the same harddrive. I am so glad microsoft gave thought to thoes that may want to dual boot xp and vista. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajb62787 Posted January 16, 2008 Author CID Share Posted January 16, 2008 Does anyone know the command line to pick up Vista on my primary XP machine. e.g. [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect I want to know which part I want to change and add to include XP and Vista on my machine. My primary hard drive have 3 partitions C: XP D : Vista E: Empty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninjageek Posted January 16, 2008 CID Share Posted January 16, 2008 While I may be wrong, you have to boot from vista. Same as if you had dual hard drives. Vista will not go on drive d. It must be on drive c. MIcrosoft will just not let vista run as a secondary os. Vista can not run on a slave drive. So trying to edit xp boot ini files while makes all the sense in the world, In the microsoft world it just does not work that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajb62787 Posted January 16, 2008 Author CID Share Posted January 16, 2008 It won't work unless I know the command line. Vista was once in Drive C then I made a new partition for XP and somehow they got switched and Vista got deleted from the boot. I can boot to vista only if I know what is the command line for Vista as mentioned above. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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