installed Vista then xp and vista boot disappears

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Hi everyone,
I installed vista and then installed XP on another drive, now the boot menu
with vista has gone. Any ideas how to get it back?
Kindest regards,
Kevin
 
Hi everyone,
I installed vista and then installed XP on another drive, now the boot menu
with vista has gone. Any ideas how to get it back?
Kindest regards,
Kevin
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You install XP first then Vista.

Vista boot menu has gone because XP has overwritten it. I suggest you
start again but seach this group for "dual boot" how tos, there are
plenty, research thoroughly.

Conor will shout at you as soon as he sees this.

8-)

Jonah
 
Jonah is right. The rule of thumb is to install operating systems from
oldest to newest when setting up a multiboot system. If you intend to
install both x86 and x64 editions of Vista then that order will not matter
because they are siblings.
 
i don't think there is a need to re-install or bother about sequencing of
installation. U only need to copy certain files from vista over and vista
shld be back.

sorry, because i just try out vista (i day experience), i can't make out
what files to suggest. However this windows articles (windows.net mag) i
wrote state my point.
http://www.windowsitpro.com/Windows/Article/ArticleID/45014/45014.html. Just
apply the principles below.

or (the articles stated below if u are not a subscriber)

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installed both Windows 2003 and Win2K on my home PC's hard disk. I wanted to
be able to dual boot both OSs, but I discovered that if you install Windows
2003 first on a separate partition, you aren't able to dual boot. You can
boot only to Win2K.


Rather than uninstall and reinstall the OSs, I solved the problem by copying
the Windows NT Loader (Ntldr) and Ntdetect.com files from the Windows 2003
CD-ROM to C:\. The latest version of these files can detect both OSs. Ntldr
determines the location of the OS boot partition and launches Ntdetect.com.
Ntdetect.com, in turn, obtains device and configuration information.
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Too stupid for a beta OS.

When you help someone like this they will just be back in a few more
days with more stupid question.

This group is being flooded with moronic questions:
How do I get a product key
Where do I get a driver for xyz hardware
Won't install on my lapotop
Won't install on my computer circa 1968
My crappy video card won't run aero glass (the sky is falling)
My crappy sound card doesn't work
Can't figure out how to activate
Will my 16 bit program from 1992 run on Vista
How long can I use Vista Beta
How do I dual boot
I NEED STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS HOW TO GET XP BACK
cannot delete windows.old file

Ignore them, children should only listen to adult conversations, not
be incouraged to join in.
 
Hello!

Hi everyone,
I installed vista and then installed XP on another drive, now the boot menu
with vista has gone. Any ideas how to get it back?
Kindest regards,
Kevin
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You can use BootPart 2.60, if your boot partition is FAT/FAT32:
http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm
http://home.hetnet.nl/~elektronicaenzo/Downloads/Bootpart.txt
NEW IN VERSION 2.60
- 64 bits executables
- option "bootpart vista boot:c:" to rebuild Windows Vista Bootmgr on FAT partition
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Regards, Roman
 
This was good advice up until Vista. Vista no-longer uses the NTLDR
method of booting so just copying the files around will not help. You will
notice that Vista does not use a boot.ini file either.

If you search the Vista partition you should find a program called fixntfs
if memory serves me right. Run "fixntfs -lh" and that may fix things up so
that Vista is back in charge. However, Vista likely won't know about XP so
you still won't be able to dual boot.

You best option is to reinstall Vista with XP already installed and let the
Vista installer create the dual boot store for you.
 
Hi everyone,
I installed vista and then installed XP on another drive, now the boot menu
with vista has gone. Any ideas how to get it back?
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Anyone tell me what's the point in explaining?
 
Conor said:
Anyone tell me what's the point in explaining?
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Well, the more you answer and the more you take the time to educate
these clueless posters, the less things they are clueless to post back
about again. :)
 
Hi everyone,
I installed vista and then installed XP on another drive, now the boot menu
with vista has gone. Any ideas how to get it back?
Kindest regards,
Kevin
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Well, generally speaking, Newer versions of Windows recognize boot
partitions of older versions of windows, but not vice versa. Which
means that if you want to run dual boot vista and XP, you need to
install XP BEFORE installing vista. At least it worked that way for me. :)
 
Gaoler said:
Well, generally speaking, Newer versions of Windows recognize boot
partitions of older versions of windows, but not vice versa. Which means
that if you want to run dual boot vista and XP, you need to install XP
BEFORE installing vista. At least it worked that way for me. :)
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That's the way it's always worked with Windows. Microsoft's recommended
order of installing OSes is "oldest, then newest".

This makes sense to me.

==

Donald L McDaniel
Please reply to the original thread....
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Well, the more you answer and the more you take the time to educate
these clueless posters, the less things they are clueless to post back
about again. :)
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In an ideal world....
 
yes, vista does not use boot.ini, like XP did. Instead, it uses a program
called BCD, which needs to be the most recently installed boot file to get
into vista.

Simplest way to get to Vista: boot from the vista dvd, and run the startup
repair tool. That will allow you into vista, but not XP.

To boot into either, you MUST do that step first, and then do step two in
the resolution section of KB919529.

Post your results, and good luck!
 
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