installed vista over xp,
your words.......you have installed Vista OVER XP............no more XP
...no dual boot ..just Vista.............nothing else..nada.
peter
"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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