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Dual Boot Problem
  1. #1


    Bryan Krossley Guest

    Dual Boot Problem

    I have a dual boot setup XP and Vista. It has been working great but all of the sudden when I choose boot to XP it looks like its going to boot but then the computer resets. Vista still working great. Looks like the boot loader in Vista is ok but for some reason XP decided to quit booting. Anybody?

    Thanks,



    BK

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  2. #2


    Bryan Krossley Guest

    Re: Dual Boot Problem

    I can get to the boot.ini file by pressing F8 but no mater what I choose
    from there (safe mode, LKGC) it just reboots.

    BK



    "danman32" <danman32@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
    news1F7FE8D-EEDF-4A88-A680-23A499949369@microsoft.com...
    >I had a similar symptom when I transferred my XP partition to a new Intel
    > system I built. The new intel also had a SATA raid support, but
    > unfortunately the driver for the old SATA raid did not work for the new
    > SATA
    > raid. I managed to forklift the driver into it by working with a parallel
    > install.
    >
    > After selecting Previous Windows from the Vista boot loader, hit F8
    > quickly.
    > You should then get the boot.ini prompt with the option to boot into safe
    > mode and the like. If you get here, you know that you have gotten as far
    > as
    > loading NTLoader. First try safe mode. If you can get in from safe mode,
    > you might be able to look at your event log to find out what failed. If
    > it
    > won't boot in safe mode, most likely your storage media drivers is hosed.
    > Perhaps upgraded to an incompatible version. Since it worked before, you
    > could try Last Known Good. You might even try that before trying safe
    > mode.
    > Your boot.ini entries may be bad too. Double check them from Vista.
    >
    > "Bryan Krossley" wrote:
    >
    >> I have a dual boot setup XP and Vista. It has been working great but all
    >> of the sudden when I choose boot to XP it looks like its going to boot
    >> but
    >> then the computer resets. Vista still working great. Looks like the
    >> boot
    >> loader in Vista is ok but for some reason XP decided to quit booting.
    >> Anybody?
    >>
    >> Thanks,
    >>
    >> BK
    >>



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