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Re: Problems with Dual Boot in RC1
It has nothing to do with drive letters. Download VistaBoot Pro and use it
to add your XP boot back in. It uses a graphical interface so it is not all
that painful.
"dandrewk" <dandrewk@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1D05A148-6328-43C8-9216-3C4E405C2A67@microsoft.com...
>I have been running an XP/Vista dual boot for sometime, and today I
>installed
> the latest RC1 release.
>
> Install went ok, but when I rebooted it went straight to Vista - no bootup
> choices for XP. I have two physical drives - Drive 0 has two partitions
> for
> XP and Vista. Drive 1 is just for data. Prior to the RC1 update when
> booting
> to Vista, it correctly assigned letter C for the main drive, D for the
> (logical) XP drive, and G for the data drive.
>
> Now, however, it insists on assigning the data drive as drive D, and
> apparently the dual boot manager only scans drives C and D to try and find
> Window versions. Thus, it never looks at the XP partition and therefore
> boots
> directly to Vista.
>
> I have tried to change the drive letter in Vista under disk management,
> but
> it won't let me reassign drive D as it calls it a "system" disk. If I
> physically disconnect the data drive, everything works and I can get the
> dual
> boot options as usual.
>
> I have booted with the data drive disconnected, and then connected the
> drive
> when I get to the boot choice screen. Vista then assigns that data drive
> as
> drive G. But if I reboot, it's back to direct boot to Vista.
>
> Other things I have tried
>
> 1. Reinstalling Vista with the data drive disconnected. It works, but once
> the drive gets reconnected, same old problems.
>
> 2. Removing the bootmgr files from the data drive - doesn't work, I get an
> error message saying that Bootmgr file is missing.
>
> 3. Using Vista "repair start" option from the install disc fails to even
> see
> XP.
>
> Any solutions to this? Vista has an application called bcdedit, but it
> won't
> run from the command line. How do I get Vista to stop looking at the data
> drive as a system drive, or otherwise get the boot manager to recognize
> the
> presence of XP?
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