Dual booting XP32 and Vista64, edit boot menu

[Bludd]

I installed Vista64 Business yesterday on a new HDD and I want to change the boot menu to have Windows XP be the default choice.

The problem is that when I run bcdedit inside Vista, I get an access denied error. Also the bootsect utility gives me the same error.

Any ideas?

 

[digitalwanderer]

Sure. Go to systems-advanced-start up/recovery-settings and then choose the XP install from the drop down box.

 

[Bludd]

Sure. Go to systems-advanced-start up/recovery-settings and then choose the XP install from the drop down box.

I'm sure not many people say this but: thanks, you're a genius!

This is typical of me, trying the most advanced, convoluted way of achieving a goal first.