I have a pc with 2 separate hard drives, vista on 1 and xp pro on the other,
is there a way I can dual boot without having to go into the bios and change
the boot order?

Peter

If you had wanted to set up a dual boot you should have installed Vista from
within XP....this would have setup the dual boot option automatically.
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/driver...bug_vista.mspx
peter
"Peter" <bloke@@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:Qqjzh.251530$QY6.86838@fe1.news.blueyonder.co .uk...
>I have a pc with 2 separate hard drives, vista on 1 and xp pro on the
>other, is there a way I can dual boot without having to go into the bios
>and change the boot order?
>
> Peter
>

Don't you mean "should have installed Vista *after* XP"?

*TimDaniels*

"peter" wrote:
> If you had wanted to set up a dual boot you should have
> installed Vista from within XP....this would have setup the
> dual boot option automatically.
> http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/driver...bug_vista.mspx
> peter

"Peter" wrote:
> "Peter" wrote:
>> I have a pc with 2 separate hard drives, vista on 1 and xp pro
>> on the other, is there a way I can dual boot without having to
>> go into the bios and change the boot order?
>>
>> Peter
>>
>
> It just so happened that I decided it would be wise to setup
> vista on a spare 30Gb drive... just in case it all went tits up
> I could swop hard drives and be back to normal. I found
> vista slowed down my pc(amd duron 1.35 ghz
> GA-7N400 PRO2 mobo 512mb memory) so much I put
> the origional drive back a master and the vista drive as a slave,
> just wondering if I could dual boot somehow. I dont like the
> idea of choosing the upgrade option.

Personally, I'd not fiddle with mating 2 different boot managers
and either go with changing the hard drive boot order in the BIOS
or with using a 3rd-party boot manager.

*TimDaniels*

"Peter" <bloke@@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote

>I have a pc with 2 separate hard drives, vista on 1 and xp pro on the
>other, is there a way I can dual boot without having to go into the bios
>and change the boot order?

VistaBoot Pro works nicely for this. It's free.
http://www.vistabootpro.org/

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