A very confused post to say the least. Separate partition for Vista and
then installs over XP?
"peter" <peter@nowhere.net> wrote in message
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> installed vista over xp,
> your words.......you have installed Vista OVER XP............no more XP
> ...no dual boot ..just Vista.............nothing else..nada.
> peter
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> "John Doe" <replayonngs@thankyou.com> wrote in message
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>>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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