Earlier versions of the OS used Ntldr, Ntdetect.com, and boot.ini to start
the OS. Vista has an extensible pre-operating system boot environment that
can be customized for various firmware interfaces. The Windows Boot Loader
accesses the Boot Configuration Data (BCD) store.
Try Start > type msconfig.exe in the search box. > Press Enter. See the boot
tab?
You could also try opening a command prompt and run as administrator. Then
type bcdedit and hit enter. This last one will open the BCD store directly.
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"amenx" <amenx@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Prior to installing Vista, I was dual booting XP and XP. So I installed it
> as
> a 3rd OS in a tri-boot system. It didnt even recognize my installed XPs
> there
> and went thru the installation as if no other OS existed, so no bootloader
> or
> option to choose the OS to boot from. This I could not accept, so I
> proceeded
> to removed Vista by rebooting with the DVD and go thru restoring my PC to
> its
> earlier state. When I got the 'repair' option, there was only the Vista
> partition to choose from, no XP to go back to. So I inserted my XP cd to
> repair the boot process from the recovery console which it supposedly did,
> but when booting into XP I got the NTLDR missing error.
>
> I'll fix it sooner or later, but I why did Vista not detect the other XP
> installations? I've installed Vista on another PC also in a dual boot
> config
> and it worked fine. I suspect its something to do with the drive numbering
> in
> the BIOS, I added a 3rd HD recently to install Vista on, but it seems ro
> have
> been numbered before the other drives with the XP installations. So did
> Vista
> just assume that since its on drive 1, then nothing else matters or exists
> on
> drives 2 and 3?
>
> Another thing, Vista scrambles the drive letters and makes things more
> confusing and insists on being in C, but when you go into the recovery
> console it may be somethign else.
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