Confucious

i need to stay out of responding, i thought i understood Windows more than i
do. i will have to find out how Vista rewrites the MBR. dont understand why
it would need to if it is backward compatible. it should be able to keep the
info from the MBR other than the NTLDR since it uses a new boot system.
unless i misunderstood. the MBR is a record for the OS to know what file
system is being used and how the drive is broken up (sector size and all).
which is why i thought just replacing NTLDR would be sufficient.
i guess i have some reading ahead of me.

thanks.

"John Barnes" wrote:

> He is booting to Vista from the XP drive, that means that the XP mbr has
> been overwritten to point to the Vista bootloader.
>
> "Confucious" <Confucious@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:B4AB41DA-A9E6-4E23-8896-B36F5D6E01A7@microsoft.com...
> >
> >
> > "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.
>
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