I installed Vista as the second OS on my laptop that was running XP. I
created a second partition on the drive in my laptop and installed Vista on
this (Build 5600).
All has been OK for about 2 - 3 weeks, I was able to boot either XP or Vista
from the new Vista boot menu. Came into work today turned on my laptop and
the Vista boot menu has gone, my laptop now boots XP and XP only, no menu???

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Thanks
Gareth Jenkins

VistaBoot Pro installed on XP can recover the dual boot menu and the Vista
entry.

"Gareth" <Gareth@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BAD08471-A266-472B-BBD8-46976BCFBEE8@microsoft.com...
>I installed Vista as the second OS on my laptop that was running XP. I
> created a second partition on the drive in my laptop and installed Vista
> on
> this (Build 5600).
> All has been OK for about 2 - 3 weeks, I was able to boot either XP or
> Vista
> from the new Vista boot menu. Came into work today turned on my laptop and
> the Vista boot menu has gone, my laptop now boots XP and XP only, no
> menu???
>
> --
> Thanks
> Gareth Jenkins

Yep!! I looked at Vista ProBoot ver 2.1. It could see the Boot Manager the
Boot Loader for Vista and the Legacy OS Loader, but I am still unable to get
the Laptop to see the boot menu. Any idea?
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Thanks
Gareth Jenkins


"Colin Barnhorst" wrote:

> VistaBoot Pro installed on XP can recover the dual boot menu and the Vista
> entry.
>
> "Gareth" <Gareth@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:BAD08471-A266-472B-BBD8-46976BCFBEE8@microsoft.com...
> >I installed Vista as the second OS on my laptop that was running XP. I
> > created a second partition on the drive in my laptop and installed Vista
> > on
> > this (Build 5600).
> > All has been OK for about 2 - 3 weeks, I was able to boot either XP or
> > Vista
> > from the new Vista boot menu. Came into work today turned on my laptop and
> > the Vista boot menu has gone, my laptop now boots XP and XP only, no
> > menu???
> >
> > --
> > Thanks
> > Gareth Jenkins
>
>
>

Check that the drive with Vista Boot file is the 'system' drive. Look in
Disk Management and make sure the partition with the Vista boot file is the
active partition. If so, you should use VistaBootPro to restore the Vista
MBR.



"Gareth" <Gareth@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
newsBC90BFE-51CF-4E6E-94B9-909E3FA61CEA@microsoft.com...
> Yep!! I looked at Vista ProBoot ver 2.1. It could see the Boot Manager the
> Boot Loader for Vista and the Legacy OS Loader, but I am still unable to
> get
> the Laptop to see the boot menu. Any idea?
> --
> Thanks
> Gareth Jenkins
>
>
> "Colin Barnhorst" wrote:
>
>> VistaBoot Pro installed on XP can recover the dual boot menu and the
>> Vista
>> entry.
>>
>> "Gareth" <Gareth@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:BAD08471-A266-472B-BBD8-46976BCFBEE8@microsoft.com...
>> >I installed Vista as the second OS on my laptop that was running XP. I
>> > created a second partition on the drive in my laptop and installed
>> > Vista
>> > on
>> > this (Build 5600).
>> > All has been OK for about 2 - 3 weeks, I was able to boot either XP or
>> > Vista
>> > from the new Vista boot menu. Came into work today turned on my laptop
>> > and
>> > the Vista boot menu has gone, my laptop now boots XP and XP only, no
>> > menu???
>> >
>> > --
>> > Thanks
>> > Gareth Jenkins
>>
>>
>>

Have you tried booting from the dvd and using the startup recovery to see if
it will fix the problem?

"Gareth" wrote:

> I installed Vista as the second OS on my laptop that was running XP. I
> created a second partition on the drive in my laptop and installed Vista on
> this (Build 5600).
> All has been OK for about 2 - 3 weeks, I was able to boot either XP or Vista
> from the new Vista boot menu. Came into work today turned on my laptop and
> the Vista boot menu has gone, my laptop now boots XP and XP only, no menu???
>
> --
> Thanks
> Gareth Jenkins

Sorry for the double post, but I just thought that you might want to also
check the timeout value in the BCD. If the default OS is XP and someone
changed the timeout to zero, it will boot straight into XP and not display
the menu.


"Gareth" wrote:

> I installed Vista as the second OS on my laptop that was running XP. I
> created a second partition on the drive in my laptop and installed Vista on
> this (Build 5600).
> All has been OK for about 2 - 3 weeks, I was able to boot either XP or Vista
> from the new Vista boot menu. Came into work today turned on my laptop and
> the Vista boot menu has gone, my laptop now boots XP and XP only, no menu???
>
> --
> Thanks
> Gareth Jenkins