Default Boot Drive?

Okay, so I got a new system (AMD Athlon Dual Core, 3GHz, Vista Home Premium,
500GB SATA HDD), installed a new SATA drive (250GB), and installed WinXP on
the new drive (I undid all the cable to the Vista drive first). Now, I can
boot off Vista or XP, but the default system is XP. I have to go to the Boot
menu to bring Vista up. Is there a way to set the Vista drive as the default
drive? Can I simply switch the drive cables? The jumpers no longer do
Master/Slave, so I'm not sure on this. Any help will be appreciated.
(BTW, when I boot up in Vista, and use a boot up controller program like
Easy BCD, it does not show XP as a boot option).

LMO

"LMO" <> wrote in message news:gqmcaj$oj4$...
> Okay, so I got a new system (AMD Athlon Dual Core, 3GHz, Vista Home
> Premium, 500GB SATA HDD), installed a new SATA drive (250GB), and
> installed WinXP on the new drive (I undid all the cable to the Vista drive
> first). Now, I can boot off Vista or XP, but the default system is XP. I
> have to go to the Boot menu to bring Vista up. Is there a way to set the
> Vista drive as the default drive? Can I simply switch the drive cables?
> The jumpers no longer do Master/Slave, so I'm not sure on this. Any help
> will be appreciated.
> (BTW, when I boot up in Vista, and use a boot up controller program like
> Easy BCD, it does not show XP as a boot option).
>
> LMO

Hi, some motherboards allow you to set the boot order of the hard drives in
the BIOS. This is how I overcame the exact issue you have using my Asus
Crosshair mobo.


Andy

On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:37:28 -1000, "LMO" <> wrote:

>Okay, so I got a new system (AMD Athlon Dual Core, 3GHz, Vista Home Premium,
>500GB SATA HDD), installed a new SATA drive (250GB), and installed WinXP on
>the new drive (I undid all the cable to the Vista drive first). Now, I can
>boot off Vista or XP, but the default system is XP. I have to go to the Boot
>menu to bring Vista up. Is there a way to set the Vista drive as the default
>drive? Can I simply switch the drive cables?

You can switch cables. However, the bios has a Hard Disk Boot Priority
or Hard Disk Drives setting that allows you to move the desired drive
to the top of the list.

> The jumpers no longer do
>Master/Slave, so I'm not sure on this. Any help will be appreciated.
>(BTW, when I boot up in Vista, and use a boot up controller program like
>Easy BCD, it does not show XP as a boot option).

It wouldn't, since you disconnected the Vista drive while installing
XP.

>
>LMO

Unplug the Sata cable for the XP, boot to Vista, shutdown, reconnect XP
drive. Vista drive should now be default.

Woody

"LMO" <> wrote in message news:gqmcaj$oj4$...
> Okay, so I got a new system (AMD Athlon Dual Core, 3GHz, Vista Home
> Premium, 500GB SATA HDD), installed a new SATA drive (250GB), and
> installed WinXP on the new drive (I undid all the cable to the Vista drive
> first). Now, I can boot off Vista or XP, but the default system is XP. I
> have to go to the Boot menu to bring Vista up. Is there a way to set the
> Vista drive as the default drive? Can I simply switch the drive cables?
> The jumpers no longer do Master/Slave, so I'm not sure on this. Any help
> will be appreciated.
> (BTW, when I boot up in Vista, and use a boot up controller program like
> Easy BCD, it does not show XP as a boot option).
>
> LMO

Yeah, just changing the data cable did the trick. Thanks!

"LMO" <> wrote in message news:gqmcaj$oj4$...
> Okay, so I got a new system (AMD Athlon Dual Core, 3GHz, Vista Home
> Premium, 500GB SATA HDD), installed a new SATA drive (250GB), and
> installed WinXP on the new drive (I undid all the cable to the Vista drive
> first). Now, I can boot off Vista or XP, but the default system is XP. I
> have to go to the Boot menu to bring Vista up. Is there a way to set the
> Vista drive as the default drive? Can I simply switch the drive cables?
> The jumpers no longer do Master/Slave, so I'm not sure on this. Any help
> will be appreciated.
> (BTW, when I boot up in Vista, and use a boot up controller program like
> Easy BCD, it does not show XP as a boot option).
>
> LMO

"LMO" <> wrote in message news:gqohim$hfl$...
> Yeah, just changing the data cable did the trick. Thanks!
>
> "LMO" <> wrote in message news:gqmcaj$oj4$...
>> Okay, so I got a new system (AMD Athlon Dual Core, 3GHz, Vista Home
>> Premium, 500GB SATA HDD), installed a new SATA drive (250GB), and
>> installed WinXP on the new drive (I undid all the cable to the Vista
>> drive first). Now, I can boot off Vista or XP, but the default system
>> is XP. I have to go to the Boot menu to bring Vista up. Is there a
>> way to set the Vista drive as the default drive? Can I simply switch
>> the drive cables? The jumpers no longer do Master/Slave, so I'm not
>> sure on this. Any help will be appreciated.
>> (BTW, when I boot up in Vista, and use a boot up controller program
>> like Easy BCD, it does not show XP as a boot option).
>>
>
http://apcmag.com/how_to_dual_boot_v...step_guide.htm
go here, and follow the guide through,
it`ll show you how to add the XP with EasyBCD.

bw..