bcdedit hosed me

[billg]

i had my machine all niceley set up as dual boot between XP and Vista RC1 -
then I went in and enabled the debugger on Vista and lost the legacy boot
loader...

how do I get it back?

TIA

 

[John Barnes]

Try VistaBootPro, but it may be more helpful if you said how you lost it.
Is the entry missing in your Vista boot, you chose the legacy entry but get
an error message or nothing happens. What happens.

 

[billg]

ok well i used bootpro to get the legacy loader back .. but then I lost the
Vista loader again.
Running repair from Vista setup got the vista loader back and lost the
legacy one again.

what i originally had was an initial bootloader screen like so:

Previous Versions of Windows {legacy??}
Windows Vista -->>> boots into Vista as expected

and selecting 'Previous Versions of Windows'' would then come up with a
second bootloader screen:

Windows XP x32
Windows XP x32 [debugger enabled]
Windows XP x64

i only seem to be able to have one or the other now ..

 

[John Barnes]

You need to identify your 'system' drive. This is the first drive in BIOS
boot priority and the active partition.
On that partition you need the Vista Bootloader, ntdetect.com, ntldr and
boot.ini (the last 3 from your XP x64 install as the XP x32 versions won't
boot your x64 system).
From that point you will need to clean up the Vista bootloader with
VistaBootPro or EasyBCD first, then when you have that cleaned up so you
boot Vista and when you select the legacy drive you get the boot.ini
entries,
Clean up your boot.ini file to point to the 3 XP systems you have