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XP/Vista Dual boot problem

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by rob_c_33

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Hi,
I've just purchased windows Vista Ultimate and installed it on my computer on a separate hard drive to my current XP installation. When i boot my computer the only option that comes up for dual boot is windows vista, i have tried using EasyBCD and VistaBootPRO and have been unable to get Vista to recognise XP. Have researched and tried many tutorials with no success.
Some info...
*XP was installed first.
*Both XP and Vista are OEM editions, and both run perfectly fine individually.
*Vista is installed on a 80Gb IDE HDD and XP is installed on a 500GB SATA HDD.

Any help would be appreciated, cheers.

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by bart777

You need to eddit the boot.ini file to allow for time to choose between the 2 OS's.

I haven't tried to do this myself yet but that's how it works for the other operating systems.

You may just need to adjust the time or you may have to add the XP OS line there.

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