Boot.ini (w/Vista) was overwritten after repair of XP installation

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Hello. I created a new partition ( J: ) from my C: drive and loaded Vista
onto it. I had an error on my XP Pro ( C: ) and had to repair it. Well, as
you all can see what's coming, it overwrote my boot.ini file and now I can't
get back into Vista (there's no dual boot option).

Could someone tell me how to edit the boot.ini file to allow me once again
to access my Vista partition ( J: ), without having to reload Vista
altogether?

Thanks.
 
cadle said:
Hello. I created a new partition ( J: ) from my C: drive and loaded Vista
onto it. I had an error on my XP Pro ( C: ) and had to repair it. Well, as
you all can see what's coming, it overwrote my boot.ini file and now I
can't
get back into Vista (there's no dual boot option).

Could someone tell me how to edit the boot.ini file to allow me once again
to access my Vista partition ( J: ), without having to reload Vista
altogether?

Thanks.
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Vista doesn't use the boot.ini, so editing it won't help. I believe
VistaBootPro will fix the problem. Google it, download it and run it.

Tom
 
Tom is correct. VistaBootPro will solve your problem, It did mine.

Here is some more experience that may help...

I had installed Vista64 onto a single 320Gb disk with 4 logical drives -
C = XP Pro (Pri partition), D=(No OS, ext part), E=Vista64 ext part, and
F=(No OS, ext part)

When I found out that XP would not re-format the vista drive E, I moved
everything from drive F somewhere else, then I deleted both the E and F
logical drives, -- that procedure allowed XP Pro to reformat both E and F
when they were re-created in XP Disk Manager (all back to normal).

You can use the XP Pro Install CD to 'repair the boot process' - if needed
(I didn't yet).

Hope that Helps...

BenHereB4
 
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