two hd dual boot

Hi, I installed Vista cleanly on a new drive on my computer (just wanted to be on the safe side). I have XP on my C-Drive and the disc that I installed Vista on I made my D-Drive. Is there now anyway I can edit the boot.ini file on my C-Drive to point to the boot configuration file for D-Drive (the one with Vista on it) to make it a dual boot configuration. The drive I installed Vista on was considered the primary drive (C-Drive) at the time I installed Vista because I unhooked the sata cable of my then current C-Drive and put the new drive to install Vista on in it's place. But know in order to use both OS I have to keep switching the cables back and forth. Hence my question. Thanks in advance for the help. I tried this but it didn't work:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows Vista" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
The second drive just has one partition on it.

Try this: http://www.pro-networks.org/vistabootpro/intro.php Hopefully that'll help you out a bit :o)
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--: Original message follows :-- "Ribeye" wrote in message

Hi, I installed Vista cleanly on a new drive on my computer (just wanted to be on the safe side). I have XP on my C-Drive and the disc that I installed Vista on I made my D-Drive. Is there now anyway I can edit the boot.ini file on my C-Drive to point to the boot configuration file for D-Drive (the one with Vista on it) to make it a dual boot configuration. The drive I installed Vista on was considered the primary drive (C-Drive) at the time I installed Vista because I unhooked the sata cable of my then current C-Drive and put the new drive to install Vista on in it's place. But know in order to use both OS I have to keep switching the cables back and forth. Hence my question. Thanks in advance for the help. I tried this but it didn't work:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows Vista" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
The second drive just has one partition on it.

On Sun, 28 May 2006 21:48:01 -0700, Ribeye wrote:

Hi, I installed Vista cleanly on a new drive on my computer (just wanted to be on the safe side). I have XP on my C-Drive and the disc that I installed Vista on I made my D-Drive. Is there now anyway I can edit the boot.ini file on my C-Drive to point to the boot configuration file for D-Drive (the one with Vista on it) to make it a dual boot configuration. The drive I installed Vista on was considered the primary drive (C-Drive) at the time I installed Vista because I unhooked the sata cable of my then current C-Drive and put the new drive to install Vista on in it's place. But know in order to use both OS I have to keep switching the cables back and forth. Hence my question. Thanks in advance for the help. I tried this but it didn't work:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows Vista" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

The second physical disk is rdisk(1).

The second drive just has one partition on it.

Even if you get the right boot.ini configuration, if you do not switch your cables, or better yet, use a bios setting to switch which drive is the first drive (which would obviate the need to change boot.ini), wouldn't Vista or XP see itself as being the D: drive and complain since you installed when it was the first or C: drive? I didn't follow that other post which claimed some Vista boot configuration settings could make it work.
"andy" wrote:

On Sun, 28 May 2006 21:48:01 -0700, Ribeye Ribeye@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
Hi, I installed Vista cleanly on a new drive on my computer (just wanted to be on the safe side). I have XP on my C-Drive and the disc that I installed Vista on I made my D-Drive. Is there now anyway I can edit the boot.ini file on my C-Drive to point to the boot configuration file for D-Drive (the one with Vista on it) to make it a dual boot configuration. The drive I installed Vista on was considered the primary drive (C-Drive) at the time I installed Vista because I unhooked the sata cable of my then current C-Drive and put the new drive to install Vista on in it's place. But know in order to use both OS I have to keep switching the cables back and forth. Hence my question. Thanks in advance for the help. I tried this but it didn't work:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows Vista" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
The second physical disk is rdisk(1).
The second drive just has one partition on it.