John Barnes

Do you not know how to go into your BIOS and change boot priority?
Disconnecting the Vista drive will work, but when you reconnect it, you
still should go into your BIOS and check which drive is first in priority
(some will leave the XP drive first - others will switch back to the Vista
drive). In Vista, you can download and install either EasyBCD or
VistaBootPro and add a legacy entry pointing to your XP drive.

"Kev" <Kev@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Ok i should have clarified a bit more, i meant: What does this mean for
> how i
> instal a second OS? i kinda already got the fact that they would be
> displayed and i had 30 secs to choose.
>
> i can't believe how complicated this is gonna be when it should be really
> simple, and how can i overwrite the boot if its on a second hard drive?
> surely that would prevent XP trying to take over as primary, what if i
> don't
> have the vista one connected when i install the XP one? that way XP can't
> overwrite the vista boot.
>
> "Brett I. Holcomb" wrote:
>
>> Default OS is the one that will be booted after the time to display list
>> is up unless another has been chosen. In other words if you don't chose
>> an OS in the time to display the default OS will be booted.
>>
>>
>>
>> Kev wrote:
>> > Ok, i just descovered something:
>> >
>> > in the advanced system menu, go to start up and recovery. in there
>> > there
>> > are some settings that imply that vista can control which os i use.
>> >
>> > eg Default operating system
>> > and time to display list of OS's
>> >
>> > so what does this mean, that it is as simple as i think (just instal XP
>> > on
>> > second hard drive and make sure vista is primary boot) or is it still
>> > gonna
>> > be complicated?
>> >
>> > "John Barnes" wrote:
>>