[imyu]

Dear Sir, i'm facing a problem on drive partition, and i need your help. I was using the windows Vista basic home edition that has come with the Lenovo laptop during i purchase. Now my problem is, i installed Windows XP Professional on drive D: during window start up (eg.Press any key to boot from cd..)without changing any setting. and it's working properly. But Now i cannot open the Windows Vista and i don't even see the Operating System selection menu on windows boot up. And when i open msconfig on XP the system turn off itself. So, Please help me to solve this two problem. My OS config. is Intel(R) core(TM) Duo CPU, T2350 @ 1.86GHz, 781MHz, 504MB of RAM with DVD reritable.

Thanking you.

[iltos]

welcome to TSG, imyu

this is the introductions forum....a place to introduce yourself, not your problem.

many forums have "stickies" posted at the top of them...it's a good idea to read them: they have a lot of valuable information

i'm moving this to a forum where you should get some help...if you'd like, come back to the introductions forum, start a thread and tell everyone a bit about yourself.

[Megabite]

If you mean you have 2 operating systems installed now and vista isn't working and you have the Vista Disk then put in the drive and restart your PC.....the disk should start up and try the directions here

http://lifehacker.com/software/troub...ror-251733.php

[danieldp]

hey relax not an issue at all, just try these simple steps :
1. right click on 'My Coputer icon'
2. select properties from the menu,
3. than click on Advance tab among the options on top, usually the last
4. now, under the heading 'Startup and Recovery' click settings,
5. finally click the 1st option saying time to dispalylist of operating system, u may also select your default OS from the dropdown arrow above,
6. once u have performed these steps, click Ok on all the windows and restart your pc.

All The Best

[Elvandil]

How are your partitions set up? Is XP on a primary or extended partition?

In any case, it would be worth a try to use VistabootPro or EasyBCD and be sure that both XP and Vista are in the Vista boot registry, that the Vista partition is the default boot partition. These will usually run OK from XP and make the needed changes unless XP is on an extended partition.

[danieldp]

well go question, however u cannot set a partition as Active unless it is primary, as per my 6 yrs experience still please verify