Hey guys, i'm new here but I've gathered a plethora of info form here these past few years. I too have the same problem with a dual boot set-up BUT i installed XP first, then with the that same hard drive still attached, i installed win 7 ultimate on second hard drive. I do not get the menu to select which OS to boot up, and in order for me to switch between OS's i have to change the boot order of hard drives in the bios. My Dad told me that editing either the system autoexec.bat, system.ini or the boot.ini would fix this problem. When i went to MY COMPUTER------properties-----Advanced System Settings-----settings under Startup and Recovery-------to the drop down of the Default Operating System---------only my XP is detected, not my Win7. ? ? ?
Now, using 2 hard drives would i have to use a third-party program for both hard drives to be detected at start-up or is this correct-able in the bios? thanks for any input.
EDIT.....Ok, i used EasyBCD 2.0 beta, added the XP entry since it wasn't detected from Win7, changed the boot order to Win7 drive as the Master and now i have my menu to choose between OS's at start-up. Heck Yeah!!