vista question

[peanut]

Hello,

I've really done it now. I have XP Pro on one hard drive (primary) and Vista on another Drive. This is two seperate physical HDD's. Originally Vista was the default OS. Today, I changed it so that XP was the default. This change had to be made from Vista. I also changed the timeout time (the time you have to choose between operating systems you want to boot from) to 0. Now it boots straight to XP without any way of booting to Vista. Since I can't boot to Vista, how can I access the point in Vista to change the time out time back where it belongs? I hope this makes sense.
Thank you

[bongoboy]

If you disconner the xp drive and put the vista drive to master could you not do it this way.
Or would vista not throw up the option as xp is not there?

[bongoboy]

disconner should be disconnect.
You could alter the drive to boot from in the bios although i suspect it may be more of a problem than this.

[peanut]

I tried the disconnecting all other drives thing and it came up with a missing NTLDR error. I also tried altering bios and got errors there too. However, this morning I tried booting with F8 (to select boot device) I selected the Vista drive and presto I got back into Vista. However, now the operating systems don't see each other. It no longer gives me the option of what OS I want to boot from. If I want to choose the boot OS, I have to press F8 at startup and choose the boot device there. I guess thats better than having to wait for the option to pop up on its own at startup and have to choose the OS every time I boot. Thanks anyway for the suggestions.

[momomonkey]

within Vista os. open start menu, >Computer > system properties> Advanced system properties> a windowed box will open ( system properties ) advanced tab: > startup and recovery..... Default operating system :: VISTA /
this gives you the option to BOOT from any operating system within your machine.