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Bernie

Well after all my comments about how smooth it has all been for me... I
got my triple boot machine back to dual booting with XP and Vista. It
was fine. Then I installed osl2000 thinking it would automatically
detect my Ubuntu partition and perhaps I could then triple boot. It says
on their website that it can handle Vista. It installed okay. I rebooted
and got to it's menu. I could see all the partitions and it said I could
boot from xp, vista or linux. (Actually it said Windows, Windows or
Linux but it had them on the right partitions). I tried all of them but
none worked. They could not boot. This is where things go off the rails
a bit...

I used my XP disk to fixmbr. Now I can't boot to except a CD or a floppy.

I booted from the Vista DVD and chose the RE thing. It asks for the
installation I want to repair and is supposed to show whatever
installations it can see but it couldn't see any. It gave an option to
install drivers for my drives. I thought I'd look to see what I could
see in the way of drivers. I had an open dialog box that could clearly
see all drives and partitions.

So I realise this is a bit on the edge but maybe some of you have been
there. Is there a way to at least get back to being able to boot from XP
or Vista?
 
I went from single boot, to dual boot, to triple boot, to quadruple boot.
Then adding hardware or upgrading a video card became a nightmare.
Now I'm back to single boot but have multiple machines. Believe me,
I am much happier with this configuration.
 
I think you must uninstall osloader :-S

I can remember the headaches multibooting gave me.. so I gave it up in favor
of virtual machines
 
So I realise this is a bit on the edge but maybe some of you have been
there. Is there a way to at least get back to being able to boot from XP
or Vista?
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Yes, but not with no information on your setup.

If you want to boot Vista, you need the Vista mbr on the first drive in your
boot priority. The Boot files on the active partition on that drive and if
you want to access XP thru the Vista boot loader, you need ntldr,
ntdetect.com and boot.ini there also.

If you want to only boot xp, use the xp mbr, then the three listed files on
the active partition.

In both cases boot.ini has to reflect the current ARC path
 
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