John Barnes

Read the info provided by winston, especially the loss of restore points and
shadow copies in Vista. BootItNG is the best solution to that problem. I
prefer EasyBCD and there you start the program, select add/remove entries,
in the bottom section (add an Entry) in Version select Windows/Windows
Vista/Longhorn, point to the drive that it has been assigned in 'computer' ,
Change the name to what you want to see in the boot menu, and click on add
entry. Reboot and check the new entry.

In a few cases it will be necessary to copy the ntldr ntdetect.com and
boot.ini files to the Vista drive from the XP drive. You will have to
change the rdisk entry in the boot.ini file from 0 to 1 if you have either
made the XP drive first in boot priority or disconnected the Vista drive.
Otherwise be prepared to run startup repair on the Vista DVD up to 4 times.

"Kev" <Kev@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B4D45F82-A87B-4340-863E-D2DD18BBDE90@microsoft.com...
>i am ok with the bios bit ans selecting drive priority, its the adding a
> legacy entry bit i am not familiar with, can someone elaborate on how to
> do
> that bit for me please? after that i'll give it a try (after backing
> important stuff to DVD first) in the next week or so.
>
> Thanks
>
> Kev
>
>
> "Brett I. Holcomb" wrote:
>
>> It doesn't affect what you are doing.
>>
>>
>> Kev wrote:
>> > 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:
>>