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You can have only the hard drive enabled in the bios and press a preassigned F key on many boards to bring up the boot device menu. There you first choose from the catagory of drive whether floppy, hard drive, or optical and then select the drive or from the more then one drive in order to boot from that.
Once you select the optical drive you generally see the press any key now message for booting with or it goes to the default drive/device set in the boot order. If you have that option then by setting only the hard drive as the first and only device you force the system to boot from that unless selecting an alternative in the boot device menu.
If you have more then optical drive make sure no disk is in the other one when trying to boot from the Vista disk. On a Vista system the method of repair is either the automatic repair startup problems tool or selecting the command prompt option to use the bootrec.exe commands available.
The "bootrec.exe /fixboot" and "bootrec.exe /fiixmbr" commands would be used there. Dos boot floppies won't work for Vista while you could create a boot disk for XP. You are working with a totally new type of boot loader in Vista.
Once you select the optical drive you generally see the press any key now message for booting with or it goes to the default drive/device set in the boot order. If you have that option then by setting only the hard drive as the first and only device you force the system to boot from that unless selecting an alternative in the boot device menu.
If you have more then optical drive make sure no disk is in the other one when trying to boot from the Vista disk. On a Vista system the method of repair is either the automatic repair startup problems tool or selecting the command prompt option to use the bootrec.exe commands available.
The "bootrec.exe /fixboot" and "bootrec.exe /fiixmbr" commands would be used there. Dos boot floppies won't work for Vista while you could create a boot disk for XP. You are working with a totally new type of boot loader in Vista.