How to start bootmgr, not vista "Ruud Uphoff" <RuudUphoff[ at ]community.nospam> 6/16/2007 8:31:51 AM Please help.. There are two primary partitions. On the first is Windows XP. On the second is Windows Vista. To start an operating system, i just made its partition active. Now, Wndows Vita is the active partition so the system always boots Vista. Now I want to install the bootmanager. Windows XP is on drive Z: Usng BCDEDIT, I created the configuration below. However, the system boots Vista, not the bootmanager. How to get the system dislay the bootmanager, not starting Vista directlty. Is there any documentation on installing the bootmanager manualy? Windows-opstartbeheer -------------------- id {bootmgr} device {unknown} description Windows Boot Manager locale nl-NL inherit {globalsettings} default {current} resumeobject {1b5ff41e-1053-11dc-9d87-806e6f6e6963} displayorder {current} {ntldr} toolsdisplayorder {memdiag} timeout 30 Windows-opstartlaadprogramma ---------------------------- id {current} device partition=C: path \Windows\system32\winload.exe description Windows Vista Business osdevice partition=C: systemroot \Windows resumeobject {1b5ff41e-1053-11dc-9d87-806e6f6e6963} nx OptOut Oud Windows-besturingssysteemlaadprogramma ------------------------------------------ id {ntldr} device partition=Z: description Windows XP professional The problem? The system still boots Vista,

Re: How to start bootmgr, not vista Don <don195702[ at ]hotmail.com> 6/16/2007 3:54:45 PM Ruud Uphoff wrote: [Quoted Text] > Please help.. > > There are two primary partitions. On the first is Windows XP. On the second > is Windows Vista. To start an operating system, i just made its partition > active. > > Now, Wndows Vita is the active partition so the system always boots Vista. > Now I want to install the bootmanager. Windows XP is on drive Z: > > Usng BCDEDIT, I created the configuration below... Most people (including me) don't want to spend the time to learn how to use bcdedit properly. That's why vistabootpro.org created the VistaBootPro gui front-end for bcdedit which does the hard part for you automatically. After installing VistaBootPro just click the Boot icon to install the Vista boot manager using the 'all drives' option.