sata regular ide dual boot

I've read some threads about dual booting, but most are for 2 partitions on 1 HD.
How can i get a boot menu for XP and Vista if i have XP on my SATA and Vista on a single IDE? They're on two different controllers.

If XP is installed and you install vista on a different drive it will generate the boot menu as part of installation
-- Jon Hildrum DTS MVP Jon_Hildrum@msn.com www.hildrum.com "Lignus" wrote in message

I've read some threads about dual booting, but most are for 2 partitions on 1 HD.
How can i get a boot menu for XP and Vista if i have XP on my SATA and Vista on a single IDE? They're on two different controllers.

Well in my bios there is a HD priority within Boot priority. So it sets either one HD or the other. I never got a boot menu, and i had a fully working XP pro SP2 when i installed
"Jon_Hildrum" wrote:

If XP is installed and you install vista on a different drive it will generate the boot menu as part of installation
-- Jon Hildrum DTS MVP Jon_Hildrum@msn.com www.hildrum.com "Lignus" wrote in message I've read some threads about dual booting, but most are for 2 partitions on 1 HD.
How can i get a boot menu for XP and Vista if i have XP on my SATA and Vista on a single IDE? They're on two different controllers.

If you're changing the hard disk priority when you install Vista, don't do it.
On Sat, 1 Jul 2006 10:25:01 -0700, Lignus wrote:

Well in my bios there is a HD priority within Boot priority. So it sets either one HD or the other. I never got a boot menu, and i had a fully working XP pro SP2 when i installed
"Jon_Hildrum" wrote:
If XP is installed and you install vista on a different drive it will generate the boot menu as part of installation
-- Jon Hildrum DTS MVP Jon_Hildrum@msn.com www.hildrum.com "Lignus" wrote in message I've read some threads about dual booting, but most are for 2 partitions on 1 HD.
How can i get a boot menu for XP and Vista if i have XP on my SATA and Vista on a single IDE? They're on two different controllers.

In article , Lignus@discussions.microsoft.com says...

I've read some threads about dual booting, but most are for 2 partitions on 1 HD.
How can i get a boot menu for XP and Vista if i have XP on my SATA and Vista on a single IDE? They're on two different controllers.
Installing Vista Beta 2 on a completely separate hard drive is the smart thing to do. Much

better than installing on a separate partition on the same drive as your XP install.
Then all you do is select the boot drive from the BIOS at startup. On one of my ASUS boards there was a key sequence you could press during POST to bring up the BOOT menu without entering the BIOS setup. Not every BIOS has this option.
Selecting the boot drive through the BIOS may be more inconvenient than a boot manager, but it's a whole lot safer for your XP install!

Before I installed Vista I had XP on a SATA drive setup in the BIOS as the bootable drive. Using the DVD I installed Vista onto an EIDE hard drive.....This created the dual boot files on the SATA drive. Now when I start my system.....it reads the SATA drive ...reads the dual boot files and then gives me a choice of wether to start XP or Vista...........no Bios changes are needed and if you do the system will not boot as the boot files are still on the SATA. peter
-- "Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others." "Lignus" wrote in message

Well in my bios there is a HD priority within Boot priority. So it sets either one HD or the other. I never got a boot menu, and i had a fully working XP pro SP2 when i installed
"Jon_Hildrum" wrote:
If XP is installed and you install vista on a different drive it will generate the boot menu as part of installation
-- Jon Hildrum DTS MVP Jon_Hildrum@msn.com www.hildrum.com "Lignus" wrote in message I've read some threads about dual booting, but most are for 2 partitions on 1 HD.
How can i get a boot menu for XP and Vista if i have XP on my SATA and Vista on a single IDE? They're on two different controllers.