no bual boot option

I did a clean install on Vista on a clean hard drive and it worked perfect until I rebooted my machine.... there's NO listing for Vista under OS's, only shows XP Pro. It boots directly to XP with no prompting for a dual boot option at all.. hitting F8 only shows XP as an option and my built in boot loaders from the bios refuse to boot the Vistas own drive. Is it missing a dual boot option because it was done as a clean install from a boot DVD and not from within Windows iteslf Any way to get the dual boot to work? Thanks in Advance BTW I can still access Vista if I boot to the DVD and remove it after the "loading files" screen finishes -- Packman

Check to see where Vista Setup placed your Boot Configuration Data store. In Windows Explorer, just determine where the new folder, "Boot," is located. It should be on your C: drive, and there should be a few brand new files in the root of C: named "bootmgr," "boot.bak," and "bootsect.bak." If you find them on the correct drive, then you may be able to repair the BCD store with an editing program called VistaBootPRO (easily Googled). Let us know on which drive you find the new "Boot" folder.
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Ron
"Packman" wrote in message

I did a clean install on Vista on a clean hard drive and it worked perfect until I rebooted my machine.... there's NO listing for Vista under OS's, only shows XP Pro. It boots directly to XP with no prompting for a dual boot option at all.. hitting F8 only shows XP as an option and my built in boot loaders from the bios refuse to boot the Vistas own drive. Is it missing a dual boot option because it was done as a clean install from a boot DVD and not from within Windows iteslf Any way to get the dual boot to work? Thanks in Advance BTW I can still access Vista if I boot to the DVD and remove it after the "loading files" screen finishes -- Packman

Located the files......here's my setup HD 1 500 gig sata 2 with a C: and D: partition and XP installed on c, HD 2 300 gig ide partitooned as S: and T: and hd 3 is a 320 gig sata 2 with a single partiton V: with Vista installed on it. The boot configuration files ended up on the S: partition not the V: with Vista ! Ideas ?
Thanks -- Packman
"milleron" wrote:

Check to see where Vista Setup placed your Boot Configuration Data store. In Windows Explorer, just determine where the new folder, "Boot," is located. It should be on your C: drive, and there should be a few brand new files in the root of C: named "bootmgr," "boot.bak," and "bootsect.bak." If you find them on the correct drive, then you may be able to repair the BCD store with an editing program called VistaBootPRO (easily Googled). Let us know on which drive you find the new "Boot" folder.
--
Ron
"Packman" wrote in message I did a clean install on Vista on a clean hard drive and it worked perfect until I rebooted my machine.... there's NO listing for Vista under OS's, only shows XP Pro. It boots directly to XP with no prompting for a dual boot option at all.. hitting F8 only shows XP as an option and my built in boot loaders from the bios refuse to boot the Vistas own drive. Is it missing a dual boot option because it was done as a clean install from a boot DVD and not from within Windows iteslf Any way to get the dual boot to work? Thanks in Advance BTW I can still access Vista if I boot to the DVD and remove it after the "loading files" screen finishes -- Packman

Folow up.. the boot folder does reside on the Vista drive where it shouild be
"milleron" wrote:

Check to see where Vista Setup placed your Boot Configuration Data store. In Windows Explorer, just determine where the new folder, "Boot," is located. It should be on your C: drive, and there should be a few brand new files in the root of C: named "bootmgr," "boot.bak," and "bootsect.bak." If you find them on the correct drive, then you may be able to repair the BCD store with an editing program called VistaBootPRO (easily Googled). Let us know on which drive you find the new "Boot" folder.
--
Ron
"Packman" wrote in message I did a clean install on Vista on a clean hard drive and it worked perfect until I rebooted my machine.... there's NO listing for Vista under OS's, only shows XP Pro. It boots directly to XP with no prompting for a dual boot option at all.. hitting F8 only shows XP as an option and my built in boot loaders from the bios refuse to boot the Vistas own drive. Is it missing a dual boot option because it was done as a clean install from a boot DVD and not from within Windows iteslf Any way to get the dual boot to work? Thanks in Advance BTW I can still access Vista if I boot to the DVD and remove it after the "loading files" screen finishes -- Packman

=?Utf-8?B?UGFja21hbg==?= wrote in news:FD50785A-D113-4A59-947D-ECDCA13CB5E4@microsoft.com:

Folow up.. the boot folder does reside on the Vista drive where it shouild be
"milleron" wrote:
Check to see where Vista Setup placed your Boot Configuration Data store. In Windows Explorer, just determine where the new folder, "Boot," is located. It should be on your C: drive, and there should be a few brand new files in the root of C: named "bootmgr," "boot.bak," and "bootsect.bak." If you find them on the correct drive, then you may be able to repair the BCD store with an editing program called VistaBootPRO (easily Googled). Let us know on which drive you find the new "Boot" folder.
--
Ron
"Packman" wrote in message I did a clean install on Vista on a clean hard drive and it worked perfect until I rebooted my machine.... there's NO listing for Vista under OS's, only shows XP Pro. It boots directly to XP with no prompting for a dual boot option at all.. hitting F8 only shows XP as an option and my built in boot loaders from the bios refuse to boot the Vistas own drive. Is it missing a dual boot option because it was done as a clean install from a boot DVD and not from within Windows iteslf Any way to get the dual boot to work? Thanks in Advance BTW I can still access Vista if I boot to the DVD and remove it after the "loading files" screen finishes -- Packman

This seems wrong. If I'm understanding your drive layout, it shouldn't be on hd 3. It should be on hd 1, in the root directory of your (XP's) C: drive. In my machine I have a dual boot w/ Windows 2000. In Win2000 the boot directory is on the C: drive, but when I boot to Vista it is on the D: drive.
BCDEDIT shows this:
Windows Boot Manager -------------------- identifier {bootmgr} device partition=D: description Windows Boot Manager locale en-US inherit {globalsettings} default {current} displayorder {ntldr} {current} toolsdisplayorder {memdiag} timeout 30
Windows Legacy OS Loader ------------------------ identifier {ntldr} device partition=D: path \ntldr description Earlier version of Windows
Windows Boot Loader ------------------- identifier {current} device partition=C: path \Windows\system32\winload.exe description Microsoft Windows locale en-US inherit {bootloadersettings} osdevice partition=C: systemroot \Windows resumeobject {50c73d4d-e6b3-11da-bc73-d30cdb1ce216} nx OptIn

On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 17:53:15 -0700, "Jonathan C." wrote:

=?Utf-8?B?UGFja21hbg==?= wrote in news:FD50785A-D113-4A59-947D-ECDCA13CB5E4@microsoft.com:
Folow up.. the boot folder does reside on the Vista drive where it shouild be
"milleron" wrote:
Check to see where Vista Setup placed your Boot Configuration Data store. In Windows Explorer, just determine where the new folder, "Boot," is located. It should be on your C: drive, and there should be a few brand new files in the root of C: named "bootmgr," "boot.bak," and "bootsect.bak." If you find them on the correct drive, then you may be able to repair the BCD store with an editing program called VistaBootPRO (easily Googled). Let us know on which drive you find the new "Boot" folder.
--
Ron
"Packman" wrote in message I did a clean install on Vista on a clean hard drive and it worked perfect until I rebooted my machine.... there's NO listing for Vista under OS's, only shows XP Pro. It boots directly to XP with no prompting for a dual boot option at all.. hitting F8 only shows XP as an option and my built in boot loaders from the bios refuse to boot the Vistas own drive. Is it missing a dual boot option because it was done as a clean install from a boot DVD and not from within Windows iteslf Any way to get the dual boot to work? Thanks in Advance BTW I can still access Vista if I boot to the DVD and remove it after the "loading files" screen finishes -- Packman
This seems wrong. If I'm understanding your drive layout, it shouldn't be on hd 3. It should be on hd 1, in the root directory of your (XP's) C: drive. In my machine I have a dual boot w/ Windows 2000. In Win2000 the boot directory is on the C: drive, but when I boot to Vista it is on the D: drive.
BCDEDIT shows this:
Windows Boot Manager -------------------- identifier {bootmgr} device partition=D: description Windows Boot Manager locale en-US inherit {globalsettings} default {current} displayorder {ntldr} {current} toolsdisplayorder {memdiag} timeout 30
Windows Legacy OS Loader ------------------------ identifier {ntldr} device partition=D: path \ntldr description Earlier version of Windows
Windows Boot Loader ------------------- identifier {current} device partition=C: path \Windows\system32\winload.exe description Microsoft Windows locale en-US inherit {bootloadersettings} osdevice partition=C: systemroot \Windows resumeobject {50c73d4d-e6b3-11da-bc73-d30cdb1ce216} nx OptIn

I think you're right. As I said in the above post, for a dual booter, the Boot folder and the other files should have ended up in the root of the drive on which XP is installed.
I'd try the installation again. In XP, I'd reformat the V: drive. I'd then launch the Vista Setup DVD FROM WITHIN WINDOWS XP. I think that will allow setup to realize that there's another operating system installed on the computer and tell it that it should place it's boot manager on C: even though Vista is being installed on V: