Dual booting XP and Vista

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NigelH

Hi all,

I have had visa and xp in a multi boot configuration. However, decided that
I do not need xp any more.

I have vista and xp on two physically seperate hard drive

So I used 'Vista boot pro' to delete the windows xp MBR. When I reset the
computer it worked fine and their was no option for loading xp.

Than I decided to erase the drive that xp was on (not vista), using East-Tec
Eraser 2008 to wipe the drive. This took 5 hours as the drive was 100 gb.

When it finished I then reset the computer and the screen said 'No operating
system found'.

I then used the original visa dvd to fix the boot record, however, when I
tried there was no record of any operating system.

I know that the installation is still there as I saw it using the find
driver dialog box.

Please help.

Thanks in advance.
 
I have fixed the problem. The reason why the computer was not picking up my
vista installation was because the hard drive was not set to the boot drive
in the bios.

Once this was changed, the vista startup recovery picked up the vista
installation.

Then I used the dos console in startup recovery to repair the BCD. using the
following:

bcdedit /export c:\BCD_Backup
C:
cd boot
attrib bcd -s -h -r
ren c:\boot\bcd bcd.old
bootrec /RebuildBCD

I then rebooted and went back into the repair on the vista dvd

and repaired the boot using the fixboot command (1st in the list) in the
repair menu (not the console)

and rebooted and the system loaded properly.
 
NigelH said:
Hi all,

I have had visa and xp in a multi boot configuration. However, decided that
I do not need xp any more.

I have vista and xp on two physically seperate hard drive

So I used 'Vista boot pro' to delete the windows xp MBR. When I reset the
computer it worked fine and their was no option for loading xp.

Than I decided to erase the drive that xp was on (not vista), using East-Tec
Eraser 2008 to wipe the drive. This took 5 hours as the drive was 100 gb.

When it finished I then reset the computer and the screen said 'No operating
system found'.

I then used the original visa dvd to fix the boot record, however, when I
tried there was no record of any operating system.

I know that the installation is still there as I saw it using the find
driver dialog box.

Please help.

Thanks in advance.
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Did you wipe out the boot drive (normally C:)?
If so, please boot from Vista DVD, enter command prompt, format your C:
drive, go out and fix boot in the menu.
 
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