Multiboot Windows Vista Home Premium and Windows XP Professional
I have recently purchased a new Samsung 1TB hard drive.
I have created and formatted 2 new Partitions.
On Disc C: I have installed Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium (32 Bit)
On Disc D: I have installed Microsoft Windows XP Professional (32 Bit)
Disk D is listed as the Boot Partition how can I set up my Computer to boot from Disk C?
My Computer is a Dell OptiPlex GX620
Please could you advise me and help me?
Kind Regards
Alan Clarke (Biggles 777)
September 2nd, 2011 4:38pm
Do you mean by default its starting Windows Xp and you want to start Vista instead.
If so, type msconfig in your start menu search box and run it.
Then select the boot tab and select the OS you wish to be the default
Regards, ~P MCSE, MCITP, MCTS, MCP, CCNA
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September 2nd, 2011 4:47pm
Sounds like you have installed the operating systems in the wrong order. As a rule of thumb, you should always install the oldest O/S first (in your case XP, then Vista)
See KB919529 for a workaround for your situation.
September 2nd, 2011 8:17pm
Hi,
Here is Windows 7 forum. If you have any further question, please feel free to contact Windows Vista forum.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/itprovistasetup/threads
If you want to modify boot menu within Windows 7, Vista and XP without running commands, you can search EasyBCD.
Best Regards,
Niki
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September 6th, 2011 1:23am
Nikki,
If you dont mind my asking, I don't see how downloading and installing a third party app (that does the same thing) is easier than just running msconfig in your search box?Regards, ~P MCSE, MCITP, MCTS, MCP, CCNA
September 9th, 2011 1:07am
"Gandalf50" wrote in message news:014e5235-427a-4dbd-beb1-05afe5b8f7f2...
Nikki,
If you dont mind my asking, I don't see how downloading and installing a third party app (that does the same thing) is easier than just running msconfig in your search box?
Regards, ~P MCSE, MCITP, MCTS, MCP, CCNA
MSCONFIG does not deal with BCD at all
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September 9th, 2011 2:12am
Now that I re-read the original question. their issue possibly may indeed be bcd one. I may have been confusing this thread with another one where the user was seeing two operating systems listed on boot up and simply wanted to remove one. The
way i interpretting the question, if the user just wants to boot into Vista rather than XP by default then msconfig should work fine. Thanks for clearing that upRegards, ~P MCSE, MCITP, MCTS, MCP, CCNA
September 9th, 2011 2:29am