I am very close to having this running but need one more clue that i'm not finding in the forums. I have an Acer Aspire 8730 with vista x64 pre-loaded on C: It came with another partition D: for data storage and backup images. I used disk management to create a 25 gb. partition and loaded XP pro in that (automatically labeled F) I can restart and boot to vista no problem but when i try to boot xp i see the xp startup screen for about 2 seconds, then a flash of blue screen and then a restart. I have the files (ntdetect, boot.ini and ntldr) in C: \ In easyBCD 2.0 beta, when i selected F: and xp /add/save and reboot, xp doesn't load and after booting vista and looking in BCD again the drive is changed to C: and bootloader path:ntldr Does not work with C: selected either. Any Ideas???
Addendum:
In my bios and under SATA mode: if ACHI is selected then vista will boot and XP will not. If IDE is selected then XP will boot and vista will not. Does this help anybody see my problem?
Addendum:
In my bios and under SATA mode: if ACHI is selected then vista will boot and XP will not. If IDE is selected then XP will boot and vista will not. Does this help anybody see my problem?
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