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Hello this is my first post.I have a 6 year old Dell demension 8100 running XP service pack 2. my hard drive is full so I installed second hard...

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?

Hi,

Sorry for this longish post, I just want to explain things as clearly as possible.

I am having problems dual booting XP and Vista. XP boots up as default which is what I want for the time being but I cannot boot to Vista. I do not get the boot loader during start-up so I cannot choose. The only way I can boot to Vista is to have the Vista DVD in the dvd drive at start-up, which loads the Vista boot loader allowing me to choose what OS I want to boot from.

I have 2 HDD’s:

1. My main drive is 250G. This has 2 partitions (200G for XP Pro 64bit and the rest for Vista Business 32bit)

Hi - can someone help please.......

I had XP Pro installed on my C:\ drive, and I replaced it with RC1 of Vitsa, doing a clean install.

I've been given a formatted hard disk, connected up as my D:\ drive, and I'd like to reinstall XP Pro onto it, and be able to choose which OS I boot into.

However, when I insert the XP installation disk, I get the initial options menu, but when I select 'Install XP Professional', nothing at all happens.

If I swap the hard drives around, so that the PC boots into the new formatted drive, I get a message when booting up saying 'OS not found', and can get no further. This happens whether or not I boot up with the XP Installation disc in the drive.

I see a lot about installing Vista on a separate partition in order to be able to dual boot, but can it be installed on a separate hard drive and still dual boot?I have XP on one drive, and will be puting another drive in to install Vista on . ....