BF2S Forums Dual Booting XP and Vista.

So, my regular refomat day has came up, and after noticing the drop in performance Battlefield 2 has had over the month, the task of maintaining the computer just so it can play games, and switching between the user accounts, I thought "Fuck it... I will dual boot".

I have not dual booted before, but this is what I did.....

So I backup, stick in the Vista disk, reboot, get to the Partition page....

I delete all previous partitions- and create 3.

One (Windows called it the "Primary") - For Vista (C:\)
2nd one for XP (D:\)
3rd for Backups

So after Vista installed, I stick in the XP disk, blah blah blah.

Get to the Partition page, select the XP Partition (D:\) and it installed.

BUT. THEN. After it rebooted (part of the installation)... it stopped working "Invalid Disk. Press CTRL + ALT + DEL To restart (or words to that affect (or effect?))

It wouldn't work.... I took out the disk, unplugges EVERYTHING, looked through the BIOS.... NOTHING.

So, "Fuck it" - Ill do it the other way round.

So I put XP disk in

I delete all previous partitions- and create 3.

One (Windows called it the "Primary") - For Vista (C:\)
2nd one for XP (D:\)
3rd for Backups

and installed XP on D:\ - again, no problems.

Then I go and install Vista... again no problems.

So here I am, Typing this on Vista.... But i can't boot into XP.

The Partition is there, the files are on it, but it doesn't give me the option when i boot to load into XP, or infact seelct which OS i want to boot into... it just loads Vista.

I have check in Vista- in the startup crap in System, and it shows no mention of XP.
The BIOS doesn't tell me any information about dual boot (I think)

So, I'm tired, Im fucked off, I have searched the internet, albeit brefily, because I am sooooo fucked off. And I need Help!.

My system specs are in my signature.....