I have genuine media centre working fine previously.For hype of Vista , i
decided to install it on a fresh 80 gb Hard disk.During this i disconnected
my media centre hard disk.It was clean installation without
problem.Everything was fine.,till i decided to go back to my media centre
hard disk.I discoonected my vista hard drive n restarted media centre hard
disk.Now it is giving strange messages while booting.I donot want to
reinstall my media centre again.Any help will be welcome.

"Sanjay" <Sanjay@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have genuine media centre working fine previously.For hype of Vista , i
> decided to install it on a fresh 80 gb Hard disk.During this i
> disconnected
> my media centre hard disk.It was clean installation without
> problem.Everything was fine.,till i decided to go back to my media centre
> hard disk.I discoonected my vista hard drive n restarted media centre hard
> disk.Now it is giving strange messages while booting.I donot want to
> reinstall my media centre again.Any help will be welcome.

What are the strange messages? 8-)

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ntldr not fpound something like that.I quickly disconnected the drive as i
dont want to reinstall..

"Paul Smith" wrote:

> "Sanjay" <Sanjay@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:C26970CF-282E-43D4-AFB7-3D4F74C29FED@microsoft.com...
> >I have genuine media centre working fine previously.For hype of Vista , i
> > decided to install it on a fresh 80 gb Hard disk.During this i
> > disconnected
> > my media centre hard disk.It was clean installation without
> > problem.Everything was fine.,till i decided to go back to my media centre
> > hard disk.I discoonected my vista hard drive n restarted media centre hard
> > disk.Now it is giving strange messages while booting.I donot want to
> > reinstall my media centre again.Any help will be welcome.
>
> What are the strange messages? 8-)
>
> --
> Paul Smith,
> Yeovil, UK.
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
> http://www.windowsresource.net/
>
> *Remove 'nospam.' to reply by e-mail*
>

You will need to copy the ntldr ntdetect.com and boot.ini files onto the
drive with the Vista boot file and may have to modify the entry on the
boot.ini

"Sanjay" <Sanjay@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> ntldr not fpound something like that.I quickly disconnected the drive as i
> dont want to reinstall..
>
> "Paul Smith" wrote:
>
>> "Sanjay" <Sanjay@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:C26970CF-282E-43D4-AFB7-3D4F74C29FED@microsoft.com...
>> >I have genuine media centre working fine previously.For hype of Vista ,
>> >i
>> > decided to install it on a fresh 80 gb Hard disk.During this i
>> > disconnected
>> > my media centre hard disk.It was clean installation without
>> > problem.Everything was fine.,till i decided to go back to my media
>> > centre
>> > hard disk.I discoonected my vista hard drive n restarted media centre
>> > hard
>> > disk.Now it is giving strange messages while booting.I donot want to
>> > reinstall my media centre again.Any help will be welcome.
>>
>> What are the strange messages? 8-)
>>
>> --
>> Paul Smith,
>> Yeovil, UK.
>> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
>> http://www.windowsresource.net/
>>
>> *Remove 'nospam.' to reply by e-mail*
>>

I m newbie in editing boot ini.
Can somebody explain step by step?

How many drives do you have? Then list the drives (0,1, etc) and indicate
what the each partition (1,2,3 etc) has on it and how it is designated
(system,boot,etc).


"Sanjay" <Sanjay@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I m newbie in editing boot ini.
> Can somebody explain step by step?
>

Hi Sanjay,

When you installed Vista on a fresh 80 GB Hard Drive, was your XP Media
Center Hard Drive connected? Were you dual-booting at the time or just
running VISTA?

How did you disconnect your media centre hard drive?


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thecreator



"Sanjay" <Sanjay@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C26970CF-282E-43D4-AFB7-3D4F74C29FED@microsoft.com...
>I have genuine media centre working fine previously.For hype of Vista , i
> decided to install it on a fresh 80 gb Hard disk.During this i
> disconnected
> my media centre hard disk.It was clean installation without
> problem.Everything was fine.,till i decided to go back to my media centre
> hard disk.I discoonected my vista hard drive n restarted media centre hard
> disk.Now it is giving strange messages while booting.I donot want to
> reinstall my media centre again.Any help will be welcome.

Boot thru the RC of the XP cd and try executing

fixboot
fixmbr
bootcfg /rebuild

"Sanjay" <Sanjay@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:AFEF7EB2-528D-49AA-9778-A3226B636B69@microsoft.com...
> ntldr not fpound something like that.I quickly disconnected the drive as i
> dont want to reinstall..
>
> "Paul Smith" wrote:
>
>> "Sanjay" <Sanjay@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:C26970CF-282E-43D4-AFB7-3D4F74C29FED@microsoft.com...
>> >I have genuine media centre working fine previously.For hype of Vista ,
>> >i
>> > decided to install it on a fresh 80 gb Hard disk.During this i
>> > disconnected
>> > my media centre hard disk.It was clean installation without
>> > problem.Everything was fine.,till i decided to go back to my media
>> > centre
>> > hard disk.I discoonected my vista hard drive n restarted media centre
>> > hard
>> > disk.Now it is giving strange messages while booting.I donot want to
>> > reinstall my media centre again.Any help will be welcome.
>>
>> What are the strange messages? 8-)
>>
>> --
>> Paul Smith,
>> Yeovil, UK.
>> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
>> http://www.windowsresource.net/
>>
>> *Remove 'nospam.' to reply by e-mail*
>>

My media centre hard drive was not connected as a precautionary measure when
i installed vista.When I had seen whats vista for 2 days, I wanted to go back
on my media centre for some work.So i Discoonected disk of vista and i
reconnected media centre disk and rebooted .Is it not forced selling of
vista?That too on a evaluation version as u cannot uninstall vista?Please
comment and help

You can uninstall Vista anytime you want to. So how is that forced selling.

"Sanjay" <Sanjay@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> My media centre hard drive was not connected as a precautionary measure
> when
> i installed vista.When I had seen whats vista for 2 days, I wanted to go
> back
> on my media centre for some work.So i Discoonected disk of vista and i
> reconnected media centre disk and rebooted .Is it not forced selling of
> vista?That too on a evaluation version as u cannot uninstall vista?Please
> comment and help