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I have 4 partitions, as follows (sata drive)
a) 11GB, b) 11GB, c) 20GB, d) 88GB
I have 'acb' for OS and 'd' for storage. I installed XP64 on 'b', and than Vista64 on 'c' When i rebooted I was not prompted for what OS i would like to enter. I check my boot entires and only Vista was in there. So I don't know why XP has disapeared it is still clearly on the drive. I tried to remedy with with BCDEDIT, only to get the message "The boot configuration data store could not be opened. Access is denied." I do have all admin privs.. its the admin account.
While I would like to know why bcdedit does not work, my major concern is installing XP than VISTA is supposed to work fine as long as you do it in that order. Any suggestions on what is going on here??

See my postings of 28th and 29th for how the boot files need to be organised and modified to recover an XP dual boot.
"MadHaTr" wrote in message

I have 4 partitions, as follows (sata drive)
a) 11GB, b) 11GB, c) 20GB, d) 88GB
I have 'acb' for OS and 'd' for storage. I installed XP64 on 'b', and than Vista64 on 'c' When i rebooted I was not prompted for what OS i would like to enter. I check my boot entires and only Vista was in there. So I don't know why XP has disapeared it is still clearly on the drive. I tried to remedy with with BCDEDIT, only to get the message "The boot configuration data store could not be opened. Access is denied." I do have all admin privs.. its the admin account.
While I would like to know why bcdedit does not work, my major concern is installing XP than VISTA is supposed to work fine as long as you do it in that order. Any suggestions on what is going on here??

"MadHaTr" wrote in message

I have 4 partitions, as follows (sata drive)
a) 11GB, b) 11GB, c) 20GB, d) 88GB
I have 'acb' for OS and 'd' for storage. I installed XP64 on 'b', and than Vista64 on 'c' When i rebooted I was not prompted for what OS i would like to enter. I check my boot entires and only Vista was in there. So I don't know why XP has disapeared it is still clearly on the drive. I tried to remedy with with BCDEDIT, only to get the message "The boot configuration data store could not be opened. Access is denied." I do have all admin privs.. its the admin account.
While I would like to know why bcdedit does not work, my major concern is installing XP than VISTA is supposed to work fine as long as you do it in that order. Any suggestions on what is going on here??
Let us know:

Did it work (boot OK) with Xp on C and X64 on D ? And THEN you installed Vista and now it's bad ? Or did you have XP, and installed X64 then installed Vista without trying X64 ? Are you sure that you did not choose UPGRADE for Vista ?
What bootinfo is on C: ? Do you see ntldr , ntldr.xp , .rnd and ntdetect.com, ntdetect.xp.com in C:\ ? boot.ini ? hidden BOOT folder ? As for BCDedit , dload Vistabootpro from http://www.vistabootpro.org/intro.php

Hello, i have a Windows Xp and Windows Vista installed on two diffrent hard disk. Windows Vista installem "Primary Master" while Windows Xp is installed on "Secondary Master". Whatever i installt last i am able to boot only to the last installed windows. I had xp, i installed vista, then the dual boot window didnot show up and automatically got booted in vista. the i formatted the secondary master and installed fresh copy of xp and now it boots directly into XP.
I needed to use start up fix problems(recovery options) in windows vista dvd. then i was able to access vista only. then i used FIXBOOT in xp cdrom and now i am able to boot only to windows xp. PLease help me. i am a novice with boot management but otherwise know lil bit of windows.
PLease Help!!

"Raghav" wrote in message

Hello, i have a Windows Xp and Windows Vista installed on two diffrent hard disk. Windows Vista installem "Primary Master" while Windows Xp is installed on "Secondary Master". Whatever i installt last i am able to boot only to the last installed windows. I had xp, i installed vista, then the dual boot window didnot show up and automatically got booted in vista. the i formatted the secondary master and installed fresh copy of xp and now it boots directly into XP.
I needed to use start up fix problems(recovery options) in windows vista dvd. then i was able to access vista only. then i used FIXBOOT in xp cdrom and now i am able to boot only to windows xp. PLease help me. i am a novice with boot management but otherwise know lil bit of windows.
PLease Help!

Try punching F8 when your computer starts booting up and see if it will stop on a boot menu.

It will, but they will be boot options like safe mode.
"Boomer" wrote in message

"Raghav" wrote in message Hello, i have a Windows Xp and Windows Vista installed on two diffrent hard disk. Windows Vista installem "Primary Master" while Windows Xp is installed on "Secondary Master". Whatever i installt last i am able to boot only to the last installed windows. I had xp, i installed vista, then the dual boot window didnot show up and automatically got booted in vista. the i formatted the secondary master and installed fresh copy of xp and now it boots directly into XP.
I needed to use start up fix problems(recovery options) in windows vista dvd. then i was able to access vista only. then i used FIXBOOT in xp cdrom and now i am able to boot only to windows xp. PLease help me. i am a novice with boot management but otherwise know lil bit of windows.
PLease Help!
Try punching F8 when your computer starts booting up and see if it will stop on a boot menu.

Do you have your BIOS set up to consider each hard drive separately when booting?
"Raghav" wrote in message Hello, i have a Windows Xp and Windows Vista installed on two diffrent hard disk. Windows Vista installem "Primary Master" while Windows Xp is installed on "Secondary Master". Whatever i installt last i am able to boot only to the last installed windows. I had xp, i installed vista, then the dual boot window didnot show up and automatically got booted in vista. the i formatted the secondary master and installed fresh copy of xp and now it boots directly into XP.
I needed to use start up fix problems(recovery options) in windows vista dvd. then i was able to access vista only. then i used FIXBOOT in xp cdrom and now i am able to boot only to windows xp. PLease help me. i am a novice with boot management but otherwise know lil bit of windows.
PLease Help!!

If you have each windows on a different (phisical) hard disk you can choose the one to boot from your BIOS. Don't you have Vista on the primary master and xp on the sec master? well, by chooosing the booting drive it should boots from the one you choose.
I have a problem like yours, i used start up fix problems from the vista cd, and now it boots automatically windows vista (located in my c: drive) and i can not boot my xp version (on the d: drive) Each one is on a different logical partition but the hard disk is the same, i'm using my laptop pc, maybe if I reisntall vista it will re-configure the multiboot option, but the 64-bit version i'm using took a lot of time for the installation and i have already installed programs and stuff on my vista version. Any suggestions??? From the msconfig, on the boot tab i can only see the c: drive and i can't add another os to boot manually. Can anyone help me??
"Mark D. VandenBerg" wrote:

Do you have your BIOS set up to consider each hard drive separately when booting?
"Raghav" wrote in message Hello, i have a Windows Xp and Windows Vista installed on two diffrent hard disk. Windows Vista installem "Primary Master" while Windows Xp is installed on "Secondary Master". Whatever i installt last i am able to boot only to the last installed windows. I had xp, i installed vista, then the dual boot window didnot show up and automatically got booted in vista. the i formatted the secondary master and installed fresh copy of xp and now it boots directly into XP.
I needed to use start up fix problems(recovery options) in windows vista dvd. then i was able to access vista only. then i used FIXBOOT in xp cdrom and now i am able to boot only to windows xp. PLease help me. i am a novice with boot management but otherwise know lil bit of windows.
PLease Help!!

If you have each windows on a different (phisical) hard disk you can choose the one to boot from your BIOS. Don't you have Vista on the primary master and xp on the sec master? well, by chooosing the booting drive it should boots from the one you choose.
I have a problem like yours, i used start up fix problems from the vista cd, and now it boots automatically windows vista (located in my c: drive) and i can not boot my xp version (on the d: drive) Each one is on a different logical partition but the hard disk is the same, i'm using my laptop pc, maybe if I reisntall vista it will re-configure the multiboot option, but the 64-bit version i'm using took a lot of time for the installation and i have already installed programs and stuff on my vista version. Any suggestions??? From the msconfig, on the boot tab i can only see the c: drive and i can't add another os to boot manually. Can anyone help me??
"Mark D. VandenBerg" wrote:

Do you have your BIOS set up to consider each hard drive separately when booting?
"Raghav" wrote in message Hello, i have a Windows Xp and Windows Vista installed on two diffrent hard disk. Windows Vista installem "Primary Master" while Windows Xp is installed on "Secondary Master". Whatever i installt last i am able to boot only to the last installed windows. I had xp, i installed vista, then the dual boot window didnot show up and automatically got booted in vista. the i formatted the secondary master and installed fresh copy of xp and now it boots directly into XP.
I needed to use start up fix problems(recovery options) in windows vista dvd. then i was able to access vista only. then i used FIXBOOT in xp cdrom and now i am able to boot only to windows xp. PLease help me. i am a novice with boot management but otherwise know lil bit of windows.
PLease Help!!

If you have each windows on a different (phisical) hard disk you can choose the one to boot from your BIOS. Don't you have Vista on the primary master and xp on the sec master? well, by chooosing the booting drive it should boots from the one you choose.
I have a problem like yours, i used start up fix problems from the vista cd, and now it boots automatically windows vista (located in my c: drive) and i can not boot my xp version (on the d: drive) Each one is on a different logical partition but the hard disk is the same, i'm using my laptop pc, maybe if I reisntall vista it will re-configure the multiboot option, but the 64-bit version i'm using took a lot of time for the installation and i have already installed programs and stuff on my vista version. Any suggestions??? From the msconfig, on the boot tab i can only see the c: drive and i can't add another os to boot manually. Can anyone help me??
Rafa "Mark D. VandenBerg" wrote:

Do you have your BIOS set up to consider each hard drive separately when booting?
"Raghav" wrote in message Hello, i have a Windows Xp and Windows Vista installed on two diffrent hard disk. Windows Vista installem "Primary Master" while Windows Xp is installed on "Secondary Master". Whatever i installt last i am able to boot only to the last installed windows. I had xp, i installed vista, then the dual boot window didnot show up and automatically got booted in vista. the i formatted the secondary master and installed fresh copy of xp and now it boots directly into XP.
I needed to use start up fix problems(recovery options) in windows vista dvd. then i was able to access vista only. then i used FIXBOOT in xp cdrom and now i am able to boot only to windows xp. PLease help me. i am a novice with boot management but otherwise know lil bit of windows.
PLease Help!!