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On 12 Feb, 18:14, Ridesy <Rid...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> Pop along to the Pronetworks forum and download the Vista Boot pro programme
> then post on their forum, as these guys no more about dual/multi boot issues
> with vista than anyone I know!
>
> It sounds like the BCD path needs editing to point at the same drive for
> both Vista and XP, but as I say these guys are much more knowledgeable than I.

thanks for the suggestion. I'm trying to avoid any more add-ons and I
want to understand the fundamentals here.
I have posted there but thus far the solutions suggested include
measures like inserting CDs in drives and I'm not prepared to move
from 3 working systems on the basis of hoping that something will
happen to fix it :-)

Surely MS have a workable dual boot solution for XP and vista on one
hard drive without having to use Open Source tools to manage the
booting ?

Personally I think anything referring to a drive letter is doomed to
fail as these change from when you install off a bootable DVD to
depend on which OS you're in ie "drive C:" is not uniquely defined as
a specific device or partition on a specific disk, its like the OS
saying "look there first, wherever "there" might be, and if its not
there somethings changed and I can't help you" :-) At least XP's
boot.ini directly references drives, partitions etc.

Phil