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Brian75 View Member Profile	Sep 29 2009, 03:49 PM Post #1
New Member Group: Authentic Member Posts: 9 Joined: 29-September 09 From: Huntington, WV Member No.: 88,144 Operating System: XP Vista	The laptop came with Vista on the first drive. I purchased a second on end installed XP. I have found almost all the drivers and XP is working fine. Within the disk management of one drive and can see the other drive. When I put up I don't get an option to choose which OS to load. It is automatically loading XP, the os I just installed on the second drive. Any ideas?

appleoddity View Member Profile	Oct 3 2009, 12:12 PM Post #2
SuperMember Group: Tech Team Posts: 1,656 Joined: 7-January 09 From: Flint, Michigan Member No.: 83,485 Operating System: Windows XP, Server 2003/2008, Linux	When setting up a dual boot system, the older operating system must be installed first and then the newer operating system. Because you have installed XP after Vista, XP has replaced the bootloader and it does not recognize Vista anymore. Read here about how to possibly restore the Vista bootloader. http://apcmag.com/how_to_dual_boot_vista_a...uide.htm?page=4

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