John Barnes

He is booting to Vista from the XP drive, that means that the XP mbr has
been overwritten to point to the Vista bootloader.

"Confucious" <Confucious@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> "John Barnes" wrote:
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>> Set up your Vista drive as the first in boot priority (so it is the
>> System
>> drive) Run your vista install DVD and do a repair start (startup - don't
>> remember exact wording). Reboot and check out booting to Vista. Should
>> now
>> work fine. Then reset the XP drive as the system drive and either
>> download
>> VistaBootPro and reset to XP mbr, or using the XP install CD, as
>> Confucious
>> above instructions indicate, except run fixmbr Reboot and you should
>> now
>> boot xp from this setup and Vista when it is reset to be the System
>> drive.
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> hey john (not arguing!) why would you need to run "fixmbr" if XP was
> installed first. the MBR should still be healthy is just the NTLDR that
> was
> oberwritten by Vista, so doing a "fixboot" would just replace the NTLDR
> and
> then make the drive bootable again with just a single entry in boot.ini
> for
> XP ofcourse.
> im not terribly familiar with Windows stuff so im just looking for info.