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05-24-2007
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| | Vista and XP I installed Vista (wiped out XP completely) and then decided to reinstall XP on a different drive (Vista on drive 1, XP drive 2 - not partitions, separate drives). Vista, of course, wouldn't load, so I did a repair. Now XP won't load. Everything I see on the web says install XP first and then Vista will pick it up. What can I do in my situation (short of fixing XP and then reinstalling Vista)? Thanks. Robert |
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05-25-2007
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| | Re: Vista and XP Robert wrote: > I installed Vista (wiped out XP completely) and then decided to > reinstall XP on a different drive (Vista on drive 1, XP drive 2 - not > partitions, separate drives). Vista, of course, wouldn't load, so I did > a repair. Now XP won't load. > > Everything I see on the web says install XP first and then Vista will > pick it up. What can I do in my situation (short of fixing XP and then > reinstalling Vista)? By far the easiest is to install VistaBootPRO (vistabootpro.org), then click on the 'System Bootloader' icon and reinstall the Vista boot loader with the 'All Drives' option selected. |
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05-25-2007
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| | Re: Vista and XP Download and install either VistaBootPro or EasyBCD, set up a legacy drive entry for your XP system. If you still have a problem, copy ntdetect.com and ntldr and boot.ini files to your Vista drive and correct the drive number in the boot.ini for the properly enumerated drive. "Robert" <lektrikpuke@_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:%23xHp5MnnHHA.1240@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >I installed Vista (wiped out XP completely) and then decided to reinstall >XP on a different drive (Vista on drive 1, XP drive 2 - not partitions, >separate drives). Vista, of course, wouldn't load, so I did a repair. Now >XP won't load. > > Everything I see on the web says install XP first and then Vista will pick > it up. What can I do in my situation (short of fixing XP and then > reinstalling Vista)? > > Thanks. > > Robert |
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05-25-2007
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| | Re: Vista and XP Thanks guys. I got it working now. =) "John Barnes" <jbarnes@email.net> wrote in message news:u0wz9xynHHA.4424@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > Download and install either VistaBootPro or EasyBCD, set up a legacy drive > entry for your XP system. If you still have a problem, copy ntdetect.com > and ntldr and boot.ini files to your Vista drive and correct the drive > number in the boot.ini for the properly enumerated drive. > > "Robert" <lektrikpuke@_yahoo.com> wrote in message > news:%23xHp5MnnHHA.1240@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >>I installed Vista (wiped out XP completely) and then decided to reinstall >>XP on a different drive (Vista on drive 1, XP drive 2 - not partitions, >>separate drives). Vista, of course, wouldn't load, so I did a repair. >>Now XP won't load. >> >> Everything I see on the web says install XP first and then Vista will >> pick it up. What can I do in my situation (short of fixing XP and then >> reinstalling Vista)? >> >> Thanks. >> >> Robert > |
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