inspecter71

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Hello evreyone and goodmorning, i need help here,i have 2 hard drives here one with windows xp and the other hard drive with vista.I can only boot windows xp up in my bios and i am not getting any other option to boot up windows vista on my other hard drive.How do i go about setting my bios or computer to picking one or the other without having to disconnect mty sata cables both version are working great i just need to know how to get an option to boot up the version i want to use.

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rgeist554

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Click Start > Run > type "msconfig" > Click the "BOOT.INI" tab > Click "Check All Boot Paths"

Now, look under the "[operating systems]" tag. Do you see anything that says "Windows Vista"? If so, you can set that as your default or change the "Timeout:" option to wait longer before it selects an OS and boots.

If it isn't displayed on the menu, then you may need to reinstall on the same partition as XP or specify the path on the boot menu.