Use Vista boot loader to display XP too


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Well i was searching for how tu use the new vista boot loader or display my two Windows xp in the same time with Vista "Longhorn", So I found this :

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I'm not shure if this is posted here all ready.

But Chris123NT made a guide to get rid of the 2 bootloaders at startup. :)

"This will get you down to only 1 boot screen.

It is really easy: On my system my main drive has two partitions. One for XP

and the other for Vista.

My XP installation is on C: and my Vista installation is on F:

I copied the F:\Windows\System32\winload.exe (Vista Installation) file to

C:\Windows\System32 (XP Installation)

Then I edited the boot.ini file as follows:

Original boot.ini:

[boot loader]

timeout=10

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

[operating systems]

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /FASTDETECT /NOEXECUTE=ALWAYSOFF

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows Longhorn" /NOEXECUTE=ALWAYSOFF /FASTDETECT /USENEWLOADER

New Boot.ini:

[boot loader]

timeout=10

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

[operating systems]

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /FASTDETECT /NOEXECUTE=ALWAYSOFF /USENEWLOADER

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows Longhorn" /NOEXECUTE=ALWAYSOFF /FASTDETECT /USENEWLOADER

As you can see I just added the /USENEWLOADER switch to the XP Installation.

I get only one boot menu. Problem solved. It works great!"

And it works now more two boot loader :happy:

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fantastic tip, my way of beating it was to hold down the enter button for a second instead of just pressing it so the second menu didnt come up... but this is 10x better :p

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