dual boot

guil

i have vista ultimate and i put the windowa 7 beta on another hd, i formatted the partition that had 7 on it but windows still asks what os i want to load at startup
how do i fix it

Karoma

Start - Control Panel - System - System Properties - Startup and Recovery - choose Vista from the dropdown and untick option to show menu...

(Safest?)

guil

thanks

watty

Karoma wrote: »

Start - Control Panel - System - System Properties - Startup and Recovery - choose Vista from the dropdown and untick option to show menu...

(Safest?)

safer than finding and editing boot.ini

Always backup boot.ini and test new entries before removing old ones

If changing disk/partition Windows is on, add all possible boot.ini options as disk/partitioning numbering may not be what you thing it is.

Capt'n Midnight

watty wrote:

safer than finding and editing boot.ini

Always backup boot.ini and test new entries before removing old ones

If changing disk/partition Windows is on, add all possible boot.ini options as disk/partitioning numbering may not be what you thing it is.

Pffff..
Windows is harder to kill than that :rolleyes:

I've only had to fix boot up on two windows machines in the last week :pac:

get a floppy disk
format it on the machine you want to use
then copy c:\ntldr
c:\ntdetect.com and c:\boot.ini to it
then reboot and check you can boot up from the floppy disk ( 2 minutes of crunching )

then you can mess around directly with the boot.ini

vibe666

or, if it's totally boned, google (on another machine) for Repairing Windows XP in Eight Commands

you'll need an XP CD (of the same type as you installed XP with) but it can be a life saver on a buggered non booting system after a foobar'd multi-boot cock up.

PogMoThoin

Or even easier and safer is to get EasyBCD and delete the loader entry there (has options for backup too)

calex71

vista boot pro was a pretty fool proof way of doing it with xp/vista dual boot.

as you cant edit boot.ini in vista needed to be done from command line.

might work with vista and 7 havent tried it.

would allow you to select default os and set the time out on selevtion screen at start up , i normally set it to 2 or 3 seconds. Bit more useful than getting rid of it in case you need to switch back to vista in a hurry for something. Remember you have no visibility of vista from windows 7 and vice versa so if there are files on that partion you need to boot to it to get to them i think

luckylucky

I have one hard drive with Vista 64 bit. I'm planning on doing dual boot between Vista 64 and Vista 32(or Xp). I was wondering if it would be better to get a completely seperate hard drive for the 32 bit operating system or does it not make any difference.

PogMoThoin

luckylucky wrote: »

I have one hard drive with Vista 64 bit. I'm planning on doing dual boot between Vista 64 and Vista 32(or Xp). I was wondering if it would be better to get a completely seperate hard drive for the 32 bit operating system or does it not make any difference.

No difference, just create some space in Vista by shrinking the partion in Disk Management and then create a new partion