| Dual Boot: boot.ini queston - also Vista swaps drive letter on partitions I setup a dual boot on a SATA 160GIG hard drive.
Loaded XP and had it set up a 60GIG partition.
(left the rest unpartition for now.)
Got all drivers loaded and running smoothly.
Then boot up on Vista CD and had it
partition the remaining 100GIG.
Got is setup and running.
Reboot, boot manager comes up just like it's suppose
too. One thing though. The selections are:
1. Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate
2. An Earlier Version of Windows
An earlier version of windows?? Can it not tell
which one it is by looking in boot.ini ?
Anyway I figured I'd edit the boot.ini and change this myself.
Vista wouldn't even let me access it even though I am an
administrator. So I reboot to XP and tried to edit boot.ini ,
but apparently Vista no longer uses boot.ini
I saw this in the boot.ini:
Warning: Boot.ini is used on Windows XP and earlier operating systems.
Warning: Use BCDEDIT.exe to modify Windows Vista boot options.
So I now need to find some documentation on BCEDIT.
Is BCEDIT just a text editor? Which file is it editing?
Any resources on the net to explain all this?
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Secondly:
Now get this. I was confused when trying to copy files from
one drive letter to another in XP. Booted to Vista and the
folder was not there. ?????
Come to find out that when Vista boots, It swaps the second
partition's drive letter to C and XP's to D
That can be a mind F**k if your not careful.
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