XP / Vista Dual boot

Punt · 13 May 2007 at 21:00

I'm currently running XP and Vista on a dual boot. Everything is fine and dandy but I have a question about booting...

If my default OS is XP, is there a way to change the default OS from within XP. I know I can boot into Vista and run bcdedit to change this. But imagine I'm working purely from remote desktop (which I do a lot). Remote desktop only works once in windows so I can't select a different OS at the boot menu.

Editing boot.ini would've done the job nicely but they've (m$) gone and got rid of it!

Any thoughts?

chris_r · 13 May 2007 at 21:03

Sorry about this but, how did you install XP onto it?

thanks (i have vista you see, wouldnt mind doing this)

sid · 13 May 2007 at 21:29

MY computer > properties > system start up and recovery

You can change it there.

sid

Punt · 13 May 2007 at 21:36

sid said:
MY computer > properties > system start up and recovery

You can change it there.

That edits the boot.ini that is ignored in an XP / Vistra dual boot.

marc2003 · 13 May 2007 at 21:50

try this. it installs in xp, i assume you can use it to change the boot priority.

http://vistabootpro.org

Uhtred · 13 May 2007 at 21:51

Yes you can. You can use bcdedit from xp but if you prefer, or if it's the x64 version of vista that you have installed, you can use http://www.vistabootpro.org/

Punt · 13 May 2007 at 22:05

Zap said:
Yes you can. You can use bcdedit from xp but if you prefer, or if it's the x64 version of vista that you have installed, you can use http://www.vistabootpro.org/

Just had a go of VistaBoot Pro, Great tool. Much easier than than using bcdedit. Working great within XP too!

Thanks Zap!!

Uhtred · 13 May 2007 at 22:12

No probs. I had the same problem with it using rdp. As i said you can normally use bcdedit from xp but as i'd installed the x64 version on vista i couldn't run bcdedit from xp as it was a 64 bit application.