Vista - XP & Vista dual boot

I'm new to the forum, so can I start off by saying "Hi"?

I use my PC to dual boot between XP and Vista, with XP being on a separate hard disk to Vista. XP is on drive c:, I have a d: data hard disk and Vista is on e:.

Up until Sunday morning my XP installation was running fine, when suddenly I received an error while running a program, and found I couldn't restart it. However, during a restart, I was abruptly informed the c:\windows\system32\config\system was "missing or corrupt", and to cut a long story short, I reinstalled XP.

The problem now is that the dual boot menu is missing. I've read I have to somehow get to the system recovery options, select a command prompt and enter:

bootrec.exe /fixmbr
bootrec.exe /fixboot

Is this correct? I'm afraid of losing my XP installation again if I input the wrong commands. I know Vista is there waiting for me but just can't reach it. I'd be extremely grateful if someone could give me some steps on how to get it going again.

Thanks in advance

Rob.

Do this 1st

Startup Repair

Then do this to dual boot.

Download EasyBCD

Download EasyBCD 1.7.2 - NeoSmart Technologies

Thanks mansrm81 for the quick reply. I'll give it a go and keep you posted. I'm sure it won't end up with your rep in tatters

Forgot to say you need to click on add/remove entries then you can do what is need done.

If you formatted the system partition, then you wiped out Vista's Boot
Manager. If not, then the command would be bootsect /nt60 sys to
rewrite the boot sector that runs Vista boot manager.

On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 15:27:37 -0500, Chickahing
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