gecko

I am having trouble creating a dual boot with Vista Ultimate as
primary boot and XP as secondary.
That is, I have Vista Ultimate on c drive and XP PRO SP2 on D drive.

I used VistaBoot Pro V3.2 (probably a demo) in Vista to create the
following:

There is currently 2 OS(s) installed on your system.
The current boot timeout is: 30

Default OS: VISTA

Entry 1
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name: VISTA
BCD ID: {current}
Boot Drive: C:
Windows Drive: C:
System Bootloader: \Windows\system32\winload.exe
Windows Directory: \Windows

Entry 2
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name: XP
BCD ID: {ntldr}
Boot Drive: D:
System Bootloader: \ntldr

When I boot up, I get a menu asking me to choose between 'VISTA' and
'XP', which I deem to be correct.
The default is Vista. If I choose the Vista option, or choose it by
default, Vista comes up fine, with the XP drive as d drive.
If I choose the XP option, I get an error saying:

Invalid boot.ini file
Booting from c:\windows

AND IT JUST HANGS AT THAT POINT WITH A BLACK SCREEN!


On d drive (in XP), I have the boot.ini (which I believe was created
when XP was installed in the first place):

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP"
/noexecute=optin /fastdetect

I am getting frustrated, trying to get this dual boot to work. I hope
I have explained things carefully and correctly.

Can anyone advise? I am hoping some minor correction of an oversight
will make things go. Yes, I have read many of the blogs on this
subject, both via Google and these news groups. I am ready to quit.

Thanks

-GECKO