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thor1701 · 10-26-2008

Quote: Originally Posted by Gil80

Hi there.
I'm encountering a dual-boot issue and I hope I got into the right forum.

First I'll start to describe what I have done and then where I am standing at the moment.

I installed Vista 32 on my comp. and later on I have read the article in this link how to make a dual-boot with Vista and XP.

A week ago I have formatted my HD and installed Vista 64. Of course the boot sectors were wiped out but I still have my XP installed on the other HD. So I have installed Vista Boot Pro and I now have the option to dual-boot again, however I get the error message that the 'ntldr' is not found. This issue is addressed in the article.

I have copied the ntldr and the ntdetect.com to the root drive of my XP HD as it stated to do, however I still get the same error.

My question is: Do you think I should copy these files to the root drive of my Vista HD?
Since these files refer to a 32 bit operation system, I'm afraid they might screwup the Vista 64 boot and I'll have to reinstall.

Thanks in advance.

Gil

looks like we have the same problem, i installed xp on a drive in my system, unpluged it, pluged in another hard drive and installed vista, then re pluged my xp drive in, booted to vista and tried useing vista boot pro but nothing i do will work unfortunitlyso hopefuly someone here will be able to explain what we are doing wrong

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thor1701 vista ultimate x86 and xp pro 3 posts	Re: Install Windows XP on your Pre-Installed Windows Vista Quote: Originally Posted by Gil80 Hi there. I'm encountering a dual-boot issue and I hope I got into the right forum. First I'll start to describe what I have done and then where I am standing at the moment. I installed Vista 32 on my comp. and later on I have read the article in this link how to make a dual-boot with Vista and XP. A week ago I have formatted my HD and installed Vista 64. Of course the boot sectors were wiped out but I still have my XP installed on the other HD. So I have installed Vista Boot Pro and I now have the option to dual-boot again, however I get the error message that the 'ntldr' is not found. This issue is addressed in the article. I have copied the ntldr and the ntdetect.com to the root drive of my XP HD as it stated to do, however I still get the same error. My question is: Do you think I should copy these files to the root drive of my Vista HD? Since these files refer to a 32 bit operation system, I'm afraid they might screwup the Vista 64 boot and I'll have to reinstall. Thanks in advance. Gil looks like we have the same problem, i installed xp on a drive in my system, unpluged it, pluged in another hard drive and installed vista, then re pluged my xp drive in, booted to vista and tried useing vista boot pro but nothing i do will work unfortunitlyso hopefuly someone here will be able to explain what we are doing wrong
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