Editing my Boot.ini to add another OS?

[Spider]

Prior to this morning I had one SATA HDD with XP Pro installed and a DVDRW installed as a master on the secondary IDE channel. I decided to give Vista a bash, so added in a new 40GB HDD as a master on the first IDE channel and booted into XP, formatted the new drive, rebooted from the Vista DVD and installed it on the new hard disk. This worked fine and vista installed lovely (impressed with what I’ve seen so far btw), but there’s no mention of Vista on my boot menu.

I’ve tried editing my Boot.ini file to point to Vista but had no joy. Originally I had the following:

[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

How do I add an option for Vista? As I say, its on a separate physical disk, and I’ve tried changing various things but cannot get it to work.

I've added:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows Vista RC2"

But when I select this from the menu the screen just goes black and sites there forever. No error or anything.

Any suggestions on this appreciated.

Thanks

 

[Scottland]

Vista uses a different boot manager than the one that XP uses, try installing VistaBootPro and it might be able to addin the Vista boot option/menu.

 

[Spider]

Vista uses a different boot manager than the one that XP uses, try installing VistaBootPro and it might be able to addin the Vista boot option/menu.

Thanks. Just installed it but its saying there are 0 installed OS(s) in the boot manager. For the BSD Store Detailed Info its saying
"The boot configuration data store could not be opened.
The system cannot find the file specified."

I tried adding an entry in the 'Manage OS Entries' Section but it wont allow me to add anything.

 

[Scottland]

For whatever reason, it looks like there's no Vista boot sector, or it's been deleted/corrupted. If you reinstall XP after Vista, this can happen sometimes I think.

You should be able to repair or install a new Vista boot sector by using the Vista DVD and looking at the repair options probably, but it's not something I've done myself.

 

[Spider]

Just gone through a complete reinstall and the same thing. for some reason both OS's fail to 'see' each other, even though i can see all the disks in both OS's explorer and view their contents.
If I change the boot device in my bios i can switch between OS, but its a little cumbersome