Oh no...the dual boot thing again!

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Hi all...I have been reading as many threads as I can see about dual booting
issues but haven't found an answer for my problem. I do have windows XP on
my C drive and installed Vista onto my D drive. I did follow the helpful
hints from from this group to install in proper order. Now when I start up I
see Vista and old version of windows...but when going back into XP; it starts
XP and fails, then re-starts. I can only boot into XP in safe mode. Vista
is running just fine at this time...everything seems to be working...but I
think I am missing something that will allow me to open XP as well! I am
guessing it's a problem with the XP boot files, do you know how to get them
back?

Just a note about something I did remember...the drive letters are different
now than when I first began. XP was on C but the extra h/d was F:...now the
drives are lettered all in order XP on C, Vista on D, E empty(partition of
C)...I'd appreciate any help or suggestions that anyone has
 
I have a dual boot config that works perfect...Windows XP SP2 on a SATA RAID
0 array, and Windows Vista on a different SATA controller, no RAID array. XP
was already loaded, then I installed Vista. Worked perfect right after the
install. No issues.

I can suggest booting into the XP recovery console and running the bootcfg
/rebuild command to ensure the software knows where the XP installation is.
Once it locates it, name it, then you need to add an option of /fastdetect on
the last option it presents. I forget what its phrased though
 
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