I decided to give Vista a try, but don't want to get rid of my XP set up. So I've installed vista on to a separate partition.
Both Xp and Vista work fine.
However, there is one small niggle. I only get the boot choice screen if the Vista installation disc is in the dvd rom drive (not booting from disc, but the choice of XP or Vista).
If I don't have the disc in the drive, the PC just boots straight into XP.
Can anyone tell me a way to solve this without getting to technical?

theres a few ways....

my personal choice is 2 seperate hard drives, and using F8 for the boot device menu at startup, that way no hard drive boot records get modified, or anything...

the question is, are they on the same drive? are they on seperate partitions? or on seperate physical drives?

the question is, are they on the same drive? are they on seperate partitions? or on seperate physical drives?

He just said it's on a seperate partion. :)

They are on separate partitions on the same hard drive.

Wouldnt doing this work??

Right click my computer > properties > click advanced tab > startup and recovery settings > then tick the 'time to display list of operating systems' box.

Even if theyre on same partition that should work shouldnt it? Worth a try :)

Just tried that.
It only shows XP in the OS choices box. The same in msconfig.

as above, but click the EDIT button..

that will open up the boot.ini,

it will look something like this..

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOW S
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /usepmtimer


there you can copy/paste the current windows lines and edit them to reflect your Vista, as long as you dont edit the current ones, there's no harm in adding another and trial/error to get it right...