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Here's my problem, I installed Vista onto a new physical drive (g
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XP on the old drive (c. Apart from a problem with a non-responsive
keyboard (which was resolved by plugging in a cheap and cheerful ps/2
keyboard) the dual boot system worked great. Exactly once. On loading up XP,
the system installed some Microsoft updates and I let it restart (no idea if
this had anything to do with it). After the restart it went to reinstall
vista, as I had left the vista DVD in the drive. I aborted and it would not
do anything (non-system disk error), so I let it reinstall vista, but
discovered that it had renamed its drives, the vista drive was now c: and my
original drive was d: It no longer gave any dual boot option. After reading
up on bcdedit I have managed to restore a dual boot menu, and redirected the
legacy entry to the ntldr file on drive d:, When I select this option on
booting however, the system goes back to the BIOS loading screen and then
back into the dual boot screen, putting me in an endless loop unless I load
Vista. I'm at a loss as to what to do next.
To make matters worse, I can't find my XP recovery disk anywhere, so
hopefully there is a solution that doesn't require it. (no lectures on the
foolhardiness of installing vista without being certain you had a disk for
your previous OS please)
leavingXP on the old drive (c
. Apart from a problem with a non-responsivekeyboard (which was resolved by plugging in a cheap and cheerful ps/2
keyboard) the dual boot system worked great. Exactly once. On loading up XP,
the system installed some Microsoft updates and I let it restart (no idea if
this had anything to do with it). After the restart it went to reinstall
vista, as I had left the vista DVD in the drive. I aborted and it would not
do anything (non-system disk error), so I let it reinstall vista, but
discovered that it had renamed its drives, the vista drive was now c: and my
original drive was d: It no longer gave any dual boot option. After reading
up on bcdedit I have managed to restore a dual boot menu, and redirected the
legacy entry to the ntldr file on drive d:, When I select this option on
booting however, the system goes back to the BIOS loading screen and then
back into the dual boot screen, putting me in an endless loop unless I load
Vista. I'm at a loss as to what to do next.
To make matters worse, I can't find my XP recovery disk anywhere, so
hopefully there is a solution that doesn't require it. (no lectures on the
foolhardiness of installing vista without being certain you had a disk for
your previous OS please)