Your Vista DVD has a "Repair your computer" option. You have to boot to
the DVD to use it. See:
How to automatically repair Windows Vista using Startup Repair
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tuto...torial148.html
Try the "Repair your computer" > "System Recovery Options" > "Startup
Repair" option at least three or four times, if it doesn't succeed. From
experience, sometimes once is not enough.
Then download VistaBootPRO, which will help you edit your Bootscreen, etc.
http://www.vistabootpro.org/
The stuff your seeing in bootsect.bak are just potential warnings, etc. you
might see if certain conditions are true when you boot. I wouldn't worry
about that, it's just part of the program. You'll see the text on your
screen if it's relevant.
"John Doe" <replayonngs@thankyou.com> wrote in message
news:xNKdnYkjx7gY8jPbnZ2dnUVZ_tajnZ2d@giganews.com...
>I already had xp on my hd (2 sata drives)
> I left about 200GB on a separate partition designated for vista. Installed
> vista over xp, now I get no choice screen. Can't log in to xp anymore. I
> read in Games for Windows mag that's all I have to do. Install xp, install
> vista, and dual boot will take care of itself. I checked in vista
> settings: start>computer>properties> >advanced system settings> start up &
> recovery>settings> under default operating system there is only vista, no
> xp.
> When I check D: drive (xp partition) I see bootsect.bak when checked with
> notepad, among gibberish I see:
> A disk read error occurred
> NTLDR is missing
> NTLDR is compressed
> Can't find any pages with "what if" scenarios if anything goes wrong then
> what? Every web page so far only assumes everything will go just fine.
>
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