I have a 40gb ide hard drive which is my main drive, it has win xp pro on it. I also have a 100gb sata drive. I have put win vista on it but it will not boot up when i start all i get is a black blank screen. What do i have to do to run vista?
Wait a bit. Windows should be loading in about 30 seconds. Once you are into Windows Vista or Windows XP, click the Start button. Click Run. Type in msconfig. Click on the boot.ini tab. Click use modifided boot.ini. Change your timeout.
No, I get this too on my computer.superty12, what you're referring to is the timeout for a multiple OS installations on a single drive. althebowler has single OS installation installation on each drive. That timeout doens't apply in this case. He/she needs to choose whcih drive to boot from.
-- Andy