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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'm currently running a dual boot system of XP MCE 2005 and Vista HP. I'm using my smalles drive (80GB) partitioned down the middle to run both OS's. XP is installed on the first have (C drive) and Vista on the second half (F drive). Currently, XP keeps writing all the Windows Updates and Start Bar (URGE) crap on my E drive which I use for movies. How do I get XP to start copying these on to the C drive like it is originaly supposed to?

TIA,

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