[MERGED] Windows Vista Beta 2 Download Available

oic lol sorry

It appears you boot from vista dvd the enter start up blar blar.

Jarandco when you start this go armed with the hdd location,If the xp drive is a single drive on primary master then it will be rdisk0 partition1 you may need this information

[Jarandco]

rite so i need to use the bcdedit.exe to set up dual boot? i assume i need to run that in vista, or can i run it from xp?

Thanks for the link Zinglebarb

well if both drives were in the machine when the second os was isntalled it should all be done.Did you remove a drive before you installed vista? mine just worked every time ive tried it and ive been installing vista since its first beta (and its still just eye candy )

[Stuart W]

Originally Posted by Zeph

No mate, that was a question to Stuart asking if it was hosted on a 4u server

Yup, thass a 4u box

Oh, and yes, I do work for 4u.

[Jarandco]

Originally Posted by zinglebarb

well if both drives were in the machine when the second os was isntalled it shoudl all be done.

That probably would have been the sensible option but at that time it didn't seem to wanna work, not sure why, but seeing as they wernt both in the PC at the same time do i just use the program u linked to running in vista or xp?

Or maybe i should reinstall vista with both drives in...? Altough id need to format the Vista drive again wouldnt i?

I shall make it my mission this week to suss out how to set up customised start up options in vista (not just simple countdowns lol )

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Originally Posted by Jarandco

That probably would have been the sensible option but at that time it didn't seem to wanna work, not sure why, but seeing as they wernt both in the PC at the same time do i just use the program u linked to running in vista or xp?

I think you have to run it from the vista dvd. but if you digest the link i posted it shoudl tell you.I aint read it all yet

[Jarandco]

Would reinstalling Vista again be worth it to make the dual boot options appear? (Would that be simpler although possibly longer?)

yes it should
yes it will be quicker but only cuz you will have to learn how lol i spose its simple but dunno how

[Jarandco]

Originally Posted by zinglebarb

yes it should
yes it will be quicker but only cuz you will have to learn how lol i spose its simple but dunno how

ok ill give that a try then hopefully it should work!

ok found it

boot from vista dvd
enter boot whatever and I believe you get to a command prompt at this prompt enter this key
bcdedit /displayorder {802d5e32-0784-11da-bd33-000476eba25f}
this should then add the older operating systems options and I believe use the existing xp boot ini file

(edit this may add a rogue operating system in the order that will not work however you should be able to delete the wrong on in vista)

User runs the risk on his own cuz I aint tried this yet

[Jarandco]

got the dual boot set up, the only thing i want to hange if possible is the OS that is the default. At the moment Vista is the default option and will load after the countdown, how can i change this sob that it is XP that loads after the countdown?

[Graham M]

Try running bcdedit.exe

I havent tried it myself but thats what ive been told

control panel /system /advanced /start up and recovery (in vista of course)
just change the default there

[Jarandco]

Originally Posted by zinglebarb

control panel /system /advanced /start up and recovery (in vista of course)
just change the default there

Cheers! Again!

[popper]

XOSL (GUI boot) might be a way too, iv not used it in a while, and not tryed yet with vista.

get it here http://www.ranish.com/part/
http://www.ranish.com/part/xosl115.zip
the original website is no more and i cant find the new one yet.

and heres some screen dumps of how it looks
http://www.ccp14.ac.uk/solution/multiboot/index.html