I have two os installed in my computer, but while booting up I am not getting option to choose the os?

Question

Hi,

I have Xp on C drive and vista on D drive, but while booting up I am not getting the screen where it asks to choose the operating system which earlier used to.

Earlier I used to get Earlier version of windows and new version of windows as two options but now system is directly starting up with xp without giving an option to choose which operating system I want to select.
It is driving me crazy.

Please Help.

Any suggestion are much appricated.

Answer 1

F10 or F12 depending on computer is boot menu, Restart and change the boot menu.On restart , you have to tap one or the other.

Answer 2

I had a similiar problem when i had vista, then decided to install windows 7 on my slave hard drive, and it caused my old windows vista os to disappear, to fix it though, i just reformatted vista again and i was able to pick windows 7 or vista at the boot menu



you could try this



go to run and type msconfig

at the boot tab you may see 2 os, try setting the other as default and it may fix it



http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g280/hisokeee/boot.png

Answer 3

Try this:

- Boot into XP

- right click on the my computer

- select properties from the pop-up menu

- select advanced tab from the widows appears

- click on the settings button in the start up and recovery (third settings button)

-You can see a check box labeled time to display list of operating systems. check it and enter appropriate time (30 seconds) and click ok.

Answer 4

When you restart your computer press f10 or f12 and you can select which to boot. Don't DON'T listen to the answerer that said to install vista again.

Answer 5

Goto system properties -->advanced -->startup and recovery

then check the time to display.when it is clicked you will get the two os at the startup...





If it is ok..



Then click the edit button you will found like that



[boot loader]

timeout=30

default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS

[operating systems]

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft vista " /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

Answer 6

I've had this problem too insert the vista disk and boot from the DVD repair the start up.

Answer 7

did u install Vista and then XP? if so you may want to pop the Vista CD into your DVD/CD drive and boot into the windows installation, then instead of installing click "Repair your computer" after this go to start up repair and let it do its thing and Viola!

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Answer 8

hi



if u have installed vista from xp, then u must have restored ur system to the checkpoint which created before u installed vista.



if it is all u have to do is undo that restoration.



hope it will helped.



if need more info......i'm always here.

Answer 9

go to run->msconfig->there is you can set first boot divice priority