I have two OS installed on my laptop: XP Proffesional and Vista. Normally during BIOS boot up I should get the option of which OS I want to select, yet for some reason this option does not come up any more during the process, instead the PC comes up immediatelly with Windows XP start up process. Has any of you people out there any idea of why this is the way it is??? Thanx for your help.
2007-03-17 14:20:17 · 9 answers · asked by Marion-san 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
Oh my god why do people insist on answering questions when clearly they do not know what they are talking about.
1st Vista isn't gay.
2nd It is quite normal to have more than 1 os these days. Why format the drive?
3rd Yes if boot.ini exists then try to edit it change timeout to higher number.
4th Again this just edits boot.ini for you so give this a try.
5th What a joke surely everyone has seen a startup menu? safemode / normal startup? again wouldn't format.
6th Why have both as active? you only need 1 to be active with the boot files on all others do not need to be.
7th I have vista installed on a secondary partition on my desktop and laptop. Both work fine.
Vista has a different boot loader to xp so i am not sure editing the settings within xp will work.
try this
Copy bootsect.exe from the boot folder of your Windows Vista DVD and paste it into your Windows XP Windows\system32 folder
RUN:
bootsect /NT60 ALL
2007-03-17 15:18:01 · answer #1 · answered by Nathan C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I heard that Vista likes being in the primary partition.
http://gear.ign.com/articles/724/724952p1.html
"As such, we decided we needed to setup a dual-boot Vista / XP configuration on our VoodooPC test machine. "
"We rebooted the computer to look at our new partition in Vista, only to discover that Vista would not boot. We tried launching the OS in safe-mode to no avail. It was at this point we realized that Vista will only boot from the primary partition, which means we had just botched the whole thing up. Since we no longer had access to Vista we decided to press forward with the XP install."
2007-03-17 14:44:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
never heard of start up choice putting aside the fact that vista is gay you may need to reforat from start but i dont think you can run to os on a hard drive
2007-03-17 14:29:19 · answer #3 · answered by bunsofhell 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not really...maybe if you press F8 while bootign then it shoudl give u options to satrt your computer with wndows xp or Vista.. im nto sure but its worth a try.
ok but why woud you have 2 operating systems? i suggest you stay only with one.. WINDOWS XP... you can install you can format c: and install windows xp again. so you wont have to deal with any future problems
2007-03-17 14:24:39 · answer #4 · answered by RAGDE 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
reckoning on how old your motherboard is, it ought to no longer be supported even in spite of the shown fact that what you're able to do in case you will locate out what motherboard you have you are able to examine to work out the main modern bios replace each and every so often manufactures updates the bios to handle older motherboard to repair themes besides as updating it. can no longer harm to attempt. wish that facilitates
2016-10-02 07:29:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look on your C drives main directory (C:\) and find the file called boot.ini. This file should list the two OS's you have installed.
2007-03-17 14:27:45 · answer #6 · answered by Taba 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check both partitions are active with fdisk
2007-03-17 14:30:19 · answer #7 · answered by Del Piero 10 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its in the control panel mate, system, advanced, start up ad recovery options, display lists of o/s..
2007-03-17 14:28:59 · answer #8 · answered by Carpe_Diem 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because vista is gay
2007-03-17 14:23:49 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋