Installed Windows Vista RC2 on secondary hard drive (dual boot)

[mrSHEiK124]

And keep the secondary hard drive in the condition it was before I loaded Vista on there, i.e, formatting that drive isn't an option.
Anyone know how to do this?

 

[coupland]

This article will tell you how to set the default OS to boot, and the timer:

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Window...a-d61c-4c02-9f94-6d2c0e34ae731033.mspx

So if you set the timer to "0" and the default OS to Windows XP, then Vista will be "gone" and you can do with your secondary drive what you like. Make sure to run through a reboot first, though, to make sure all is working as expected. 🙂

 

[ColemontHD]

Originally posted by: coupland
This article will tell you how to set the default OS to boot, and the timer:

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Window...a-d61c-4c02-9f94-6d2c0e34ae731033.mspx

So if you set the timer to "0" and the default OS to Windows XP, then Vista will be "gone" and you can do with your secondary drive what you like. Make sure to run through a reboot first, though, to make sure all is working as expected. 🙂

This does NOT work for me. I already tried this. Anyone else have any suggestions?

 

[postmortemIA]

Using windows xp cd that is bootable, go to repair and run fixboot and fixmbr commands.