Vista Tutorial - Install Windows XP on your Pre-Installed Windows Vista

Hi there.
I'm encountering a dual-boot issue and I hope I got into the right forum.

First I'll start to describe what I have done and then where I am standing at the moment.

I installed Vista 32 on my comp. and later on I have read the article in this link how to make a dual-boot with Vista and XP.

A week ago I have formatted my HD and installed Vista 64. Of course the boot sectors were wiped out but I still have my XP installed on the other HD. So I have installed Vista Boot Pro and I now have the option to dual-boot again, however I get the error message that the 'ntldr' is not found. This issue is addressed in the article.

I have copied the ntldr and the ntdetect.com to the root drive of my XP HD as it stated to do, however I still get the same error.

My question is: Do you think I should copy these files to the root drive of my Vista HD?
Since these files refer to a 32 bit operation system, I'm afraid they might screwup the Vista 64 boot and I'll have to reinstall.

Thanks in advance.

Gil

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looks like we have the same problem, i installed xp on a drive in my system, unpluged it, pluged in another hard drive and installed vista, then re pluged my xp drive in, booted to vista and tried useing vista boot pro but nothing i do will work unfortunitlyso hopefuly someone here will be able to explain what we are doing wrong

Well, obviously the boot record is gone and we need to restore or create a boot record that will tell the newly installed Vista that there's also an XP... I guess no one knows how.

Hey Gil,
I would suggest installing xp again over the old one so as not to lose anything and then settining up dual boot again just as you did the first time.

Hey Thor, if you are using 2 drives to dual boot it is normally possible to manually select a drive on boot up which negates the use of a boot loader, see your user manual for details.
Pooch

yes, thats what i do already, but i dont wanna do that, too much of a hassle, i mainly installed vista to a completly seprate isolated hard drive beacuse i didnt trust it and i didnt wanna take a chance of it messing up my xp somehow
but yeah when i wanna switch i do go into the bios, i do know my computers very well as i build them, but this little bug is annoying the hell out of me lol

Yes understood, just to clarify I don't mean entering the Bios but for example when my PC is booting I press F8 this then gives me a menu to choose the boot device, CD,DVD,HDD etc.
If this doesnt help then I hope that someone else can help you further
Pooch

ah yes i do remember that keep forgetting its there actualy lol
but yeah im hopeing someone will figure it out with the bootloader
thanks for the input tho

Should I boot the XP installation and choose repair? Won't it screw up the boot for Vista?