BootManager Problem after re-installing Windows XP

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Hello,

I installed Vista and XP in a Multiboot configuration.

Now I had to re-install my XP.
Afterwards the Vista Boot-Manager is gone, XP is starting directly
- I am not able to boot into Vista anymore.
I have already tried to repair the BootManager with the Vista Installation
DVD -
without success.
So, does anybody know how I can get the Vista Bootmanager back and
start Vista?

Thanks for any help!
mvol
 
Yeah, general rule of thumb there is always install the oldest O/S first.

Simply re-install Vista, now, and the Vista boot manager, that you overwrote
when you install XP, will be working again.

Mark
 
Perhaps you can tell me where I went wrong; I had a great dual-boot, even
tweaked with Vista Boot Manager. However, my Vista IE went away suddenly
(white screens o' death) (XP is on C, specifically installed Vista to D, it
worked great that way with dual boot from attempt #1). I reformatted D and
used it for storage only for awhile. Meanwhile I also added a gig of RAM
(now 2 gigs) which seems to make a discernable difference (!) in Vista. So
I reinstalled Vista last night, armed with the new memory, carefully
installing it to a clean D drive, and it worked quite well - except dual
boot was AWOL. The computer booted right into Vista. So I ran bootfix and
fixmbr from the repair console of XP and that got me into XP; tried to coax
VistaBootPro to give me both again with a dual boot screen; no success. Do
I need to install XP again then Vista to get the dual boot or is there any
faster way? At any rate, the 10 minutes I spent exploring Vista (nervously,
knowing that XP was compromised and had to be fixed, I was backed up but it
takes too forever and usually leaves some mysteries) though I got it back)
indicated that Vista really is more responsive with more RAM. When I buy
my shiny new retail copy of VISTA <gulp> I'm going to trust it to upgrade XP
/<gulp> COMPLETELY (but yes, more tedious backups at the ready).

Thanks - Bill Halvorsen
 
none said:
Perhaps you can tell me where I went wrong; I had a great dual-boot, even
tweaked with Vista Boot Manager. However, my Vista IE went away suddenly
(white screens o' death) (XP is on C, specifically installed Vista to D,
it worked great that way with dual boot from attempt #1). I reformatted D
and used it for storage only for awhile. Meanwhile I also added a gig
of RAM (now 2 gigs) which seems to make a discernable difference (!) in
Vista. So I reinstalled Vista last night, armed with the new memory,
carefully installing it to a clean D drive, and it worked quite well -
except dual boot was AWOL. The computer booted right into Vista. So I
ran bootfix and fixmbr from the repair console of XP and that got me into
XP; tried to coax VistaBootPro to give me both again with a dual boot
screen; no success. Do I need to install XP again then Vista to get the
dual boot or is there any faster way? At any rate, the 10 minutes I spent
exploring Vista (nervously, knowing that XP was compromised and had to be
fixed, I was backed up but it takes too forever and usually leaves some
mysteries) though I got it back) indicated that Vista really is more
responsive with more RAM. When I buy my shiny new retail copy of VISTA
<gulp> I'm going to trust it to upgrade XP /<gulp> COMPLETELY (but yes,
more tedious backups at the ready).

Thanks - Bill Halvorsen
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Hmmmm...

Normally when you install Vista on a second drive or partition it sets up
and detects the older operating system, and then gives you the dual-boot
screen at load. Chad Harris has posted a number of very good tutorials on
this and also closely related subjects. Perhaps search the newsgroup and
see what he had to say on the subject, or perhaps he will see this and offer
some expertise.
 
You overwrote the boot configuration data store which Vista wrote to the XP
volume.
 
Not sure I quite understand. Yes, I had installed Vista, and yes, I blew
away as much of Vista's remnants as I could, on drive C (that contains all
the boot info). I guess I expected that when I reinstalled Vista that it
would therefore rebuild the dual-boot setup. Since it didn't, I need
suggestions as to how to get dual boot back if I try another install of
Vista.

I could reinstall XP then reinstall Vista, of course but that is a rather
miserable process. I must say the Vista install process is REALLY smooth
compared to XP and predecessors, big improvement!
 
At the time you installed XP with Vista already installed Vista had written
its boot configuration data store to the drive where you installed XP.
That's what I mean by overwritting the bcd store.
 
In <[email protected]>, on 07/23/06
at 04:14 PM, "Colin Barnhorst" <colinbarharst(remove)@msn.com> said:



I had pretty much the same problem. Never got Vista back after the 3rd party Bootmanager GUI product.

I disliked EVERYTHING I saw about Vista. Nothing new, just the normal stuff made exceedingly hard to accomplish.

Like they screwed a perfectly good Windows explorer.
Classic windows are NOT class.

Formatted the D partition & am back to using XP Pro happily.
 
No, I didn't install XP with vista already installed. XP was there already.
I had done away with Vista only and would like to put it back the way it
was, but it doesn't "dual boot." XP has never left my machine ;(
 
I had pretty much the same problem. Never got Vista back after the 3rd
party Bootmanager GUI product.

I disliked EVERYTHING I saw about Vista. Nothing new, just the normal
stuff made exceedingly hard to accomplish.

Like they screwed a perfectly good Windows explorer.
Classic windows are NOT class.

Formatted the D partition & am back to using XP Pro happily.
Click to expand...


I have to admit it does sort of seem like they took the GUI elements and
locations, threw them up in the air, and where they landed, decided THAT
would be a better place for them... and thus a new version of Windows.
 
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