Confucious

"John Barnes" wrote:

> Set up your Vista drive as the first in boot priority (so it is the System
> drive) Run your vista install DVD and do a repair start (startup - don't
> remember exact wording). Reboot and check out booting to Vista. Should now
> work fine. Then reset the XP drive as the system drive and either download
> VistaBootPro and reset to XP mbr, or using the XP install CD, as Confucious
> above instructions indicate, except run fixmbr Reboot and you should now
> boot xp from this setup and Vista when it is reset to be the System drive.
>
>
hey john (not arguing!) why would you need to run "fixmbr" if XP was
installed first. the MBR should still be healthy is just the NTLDR that was
oberwritten by Vista, so doing a "fixboot" would just replace the NTLDR and
then make the drive bootable again with just a single entry in boot.ini for
XP ofcourse.
im not terribly familiar with Windows stuff so im just looking for info.