Dual Boot Windows 7 and Vista Problem

[tangomilo]

Hello,

After installing W7 on it's own partition, on it's own drive, Vista, on another HDD is not available as a boot option. Looking in System Properties, Startup and Recovery, The only boot option is windows 7.

Any ideas on how to make Vista available as another boot option?
Thx...

 

[clifford_cooley]

Hello tangomilo - Welcome to the site :ciao:

Have you concidered using a third party Boot Manager. After installing the Boot Manager you will have an option to boot to Multiple Drive. Check out this link VistaBootPro

I have personally used BootUS to triple boot Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. If you have any questions I can help you with let me know.

P.S. Some of the freeware Boot Managers do not allow booting to multiple drives. They only allow Booting to multiple partitions.

 

[tangomilo]

Hi,
I wasn't aware of these boot managers that you have linked to but will definitely look into them.

Thank You!!!

Hello tangomilo - Welcome to the site :ciao:

Have you concidered using a third party Boot Manager. After installing the Boot Manager you will have an option to boot to Multiple Drive. Check out this link VistaBootPro

I have personally used BootUS to triple boot Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. If you have any questions I can help you with let me know.

P.S. Some of the freeware Boot Managers do not allow booting to multiple drives. They only allow Booting to multiple partitions.

 

[ronpeck]

Boot Manager

Open Win7 and make a Rescue Disk while within Win7.. run this as a repair at startup and it should find Vista and Win7 and install them on Boot Manager..Works for me