Vista SP1 & Startup Disk

I just updated my copy of Vista to SP1, and my Windows volume no longer shows up as a possible startup volume in Startup Disk. If I boot holding the option key down, the Windows volume shows up and I can select it and boot from it. It's just a pain to have to keep holding down the option key. Anyone know a cure?

Actually, it's not too peculiar, as Microsoft has changed the startup strategy on the latest SP1 disks and they don't work on Macs.
Here's what I had to do to get Vista Ultimate 64-bit working on my 2006 Mac Pro. Note that I installed to a separate disk, not a partition on my OS X disk.
- I used an older non-SP1 upgrade disk that I had from my laptop and did a FULL install, without entering the product key. Note that Vista complained about my hard drive and partition being non-compatible or somesuch nonsense - to get around it, I had to physically remove my OS X hard drive from the computer - Vista was then happy with that same hard drive/partition that it complained about previously
- After installation, I applied the 63 available updates (not including SP1). No matter what I did, Windows update would not download SP1. The trick here is to disable all devices that are in error - i.e., the devices which are missing drivers (like bluetooth).
- Once all the devices with errors are disabled, SP1 popped up in Windows update and I downloaded it.
- Before installing SP1, I activated Windows using the product key from my Vista SP1 package (not the upgrade disk I used for the installation!).
- Now, since I have a 2006 Mac Pro, neither my included Tiger installation disk nor my Leopard installation disk has the required 64-bit Boot Camp software and drivers. Fortunately, I have access to a 2008 Mac Pro installation disk, so I used it to install Boot Camp v2.0 64-bit. Doing that fixed all of the missing driver issues I had, including bluetooth and keyboard issues.
- I then downloaded the BCUpdateVista64.exe file and installed it, which updated Boot Camp to version 2.1.
Done! Everything is working very well.
Good luck!

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Español:
He instalado windows vista home,en mi Imac24 con boot camp y funciona bien pero cuando estoy en Snow Leopard 10.6.1 me voy a preferencias del sistema(Discos de Arranque) y solo me aparece el disco de Mac os 10.6.1, el de windows vista no aparece.
Porque puede ser.
Gracias
Traduccion con Google:
I installed windows vista home, in my Imac24 with boot camp and it works fine but when I'm in Snow Leopard 10.6.1 I go to System Preferences (Startup Disk) and it shows only the Mac OS 10.6.1 disk, that of Windows Vista does not appear.
Because it can be.
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Thanks! Actually I have another internal drives too but I just wanna check if Lion works well on my machine.
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I booted from windows7 DVD but no use.
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Backup. Format. Restore.
Windows 7 needs 40GB+
HFS needs 20GB/20% free space to function.
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you might squeeze OS X into 30GB if you move and trim a lot.
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http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/2734/capturehu8.jpg - The Pop-up.
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I've read bad reviews of MacDrive causing corruption.
I use Ultimate and its complete backup PC and file backups so covered there. And same for OS X with multiple SuperDuper clones along with a TimeMachine backup. Covers that side.
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