Can't access second partition on my HDD

Hey everyone,

Just last night I did a clean install of both Vista Ultimate and XP Pro on a new 500 GB HDD. Everything went smoothly with the installs. I did Vista first and made it my primary install, and XP second. However, after installing XP, I can't find a way to access my Vista partition! It simply boots to XP immediately every time I restart my computer. Is there anything I'm doing wrong? Any way to fix this?

Thanks in advance,

Jack

 

Please look at this thread. It describes how you can restore the Vista boot loader, and get the option to choose between Vista and XP at startup.

 

Xp has to go first then Vista, Thats if you don't want to have too use a third party boot manager..

 

You don't need to install XP first. If you install Vista first, and then XP you can reinstall the Vista bootloader, and it will automatically detect XP.

 

THATS FINE IF YOU LIKE DOING THINGS TWICE.....

 

Sure, it is much easier if you install the old OS first and then the newer OS. But when you've done it the other way, it is easier then formatting all partitions and install everything all over again.