Brian wrote:
Quote:
> I have XP on one hard drive and Vista on another...when Vista was
> installed, the XP drive was unplugged and not added to the bootmgr.
> I want to add the XP install to the bootmgr, so I don't have to keep
> changing in the BIOS.
>
> You may doubt this is possible, except my XP install was once part of
> a different Vista install, so has already been modified
>
> Before you draw conclusions, read below:
>
> SCENARIO:
> First I had XP installed on Hard Drive A
>
> Then I Installed Vista onto Hard Drive A on a separate partition
> with a working Dual Boot that gave selections for Legacy and Vista.
>
> Since that install, I decided to create Hard Drive B, which was a
> RAID 5 configuration on a separate SATA controller set. I wanted to
> basically re-install vista on this hard-drive and migrate my setup,
> while keeping XP installed on Hard Drive A.
>
> I was unable to easily get vista onto the RAID 5, because of the
> problems with nvidia nforce4 drivers, and it wouldn't install while
> Hard Drive A was plugged in. Eventually I unplugged hard drive A and
> successfully installed Vista on hard drive B. Since this was an OEM
> disc, my other Vista install on Hard Drive A no longer worked....
>
> Since then, I have been forced to switch whether hdd B or hdd A is my
> primary drive in the BIOS to switch between XP and Vista instead of
> using the BootMGR screen.
>
> Do you think I can grab the Vista modified Bootsect.BAK from the XP
> Root on hdd A and somehow add it to my Vista Bootmgr on hdd B?
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Maybe the following link will be useful:
VistaBootPRO
http://www.vistabootpro.org/index.php
(scroll down to the download link)
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