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I have read losts of posts about Vista installed on a partition or XP on a Vista machine but I can't find any with my exact problem?

I have XP pro installed on my Seagate 80GB drive and have now installed Vista Premium on my 40gb Maxtor Drive. If I change boot order in bios then can start both XP and Vista ok.

I then used Vistabootpro on the Vista machine and now when I boot the Vista drive get a list of Vista or XP. Boots into Vista fine but when I try XP I get error message about unable to find boot.ini file?. I think it looking at the wrong drive for the boot.ini file? One funny thing is both Operating Systems think they are drive C and label the other drive D and vise versa?

Okay... I've got two issues both concerning my hard drives. First of all, they are 2X 250GB in raid-0, but they look like one logical drive to everything else so I guess that doesn't really matter.

Anyway, I've got them partitioned 50/50 with xp/vista and I want to shift the space around a bit, taking it away from XP and adding it to vista.

In the past I've used norton partition magic to resize my XP partion and play around with storange partitions. It worked fine for creating a partition for vista too but whenever I would try to resize the vista partition using partition magic it would cause vista not to boot saying files are missing. That happened twice to me and it was with beta versions both times.

Anyone, I need help on the following:

I have my desktop, with 180Gb SATA disk partition into drive C and D. Drive D being a logical drive.

I have Windows XP installed and running on drive C.

Now, I am adding Windows Vista and installed it on drive D, using the DVD boot installation.

Problem now is, if the Windows Vista DVD is in the drive (and computer is set to first boot from CD), the system directly boot to Windows Vista.

However, if the DVD is not in place, the system directly boot to Windows XP.

What's wrong? How to make it to be able to dual-boot?

I have XP Pro SP2 on this machine and Vista (I installed it on a second partition)...ran the setup through Windows, so Vista is on "drive" V: now.

Even in Vista everythings running under drive v: so I'm guessing Microsoft is not forcing us to use drive c: anymore.

What I want to know is, how do I get rid of XP Pro without messing up my system? It is currently on my c: drive. In the boot menu I have 2 options, so I don't want to damage this either. Also I want to resize my c: partition and mix it with v: so it will be just one big partition again.

All the applications I've installed went to v:\program files\

Hi

I have a little problem.

I have a partition "D:" with 2GB free, and I have the C: partition where I installed Windows Vista.

The problem that I have is that the partition D: is the active partition where Windows Vista Boot Manager is installed, and I want to erase D: and only boot from the c: Drive. Turing c: to my active partition.

How do I remove the Vista Boot Manager from the D: partition and re-install it to the C: drive, on the same partition where Vista is installed.

also, Is there any tool that can make it easier ?

Th