Problem I havent seen posted yet

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Les Herrman

This is a problem I have not seen posted yet.

Installed Vista PreRC1 to a second hard drive a dual boot. It
installed just fine, booted up and after adding a few drivers, I had
it running just fine.

Re-booted and selected Windows XP from the boot menu. BAM...ntldr
missing. XP would not boot. What the heck???

Loaded up Vista Boot Pro and used the option in it to uninstall the
vista boot loader and restore XP. Of course now Vista will not boot.
Had no choice tho as I needed to have my XP setup working.

Any ideas how to get Vista working again? Do I need to try a new
install of it again or can I use Vista Boot pro to restore the vista
bootloader. And if I do use Vista Boot pro to restore the vista
bootloader will it also keep access to my XP available?

Dont want to screw up here and lose my XP setup and have to re-install
it.
 
This is a problem I have not seen posted yet.

Installed Vista PreRC1 to a second hard drive a dual boot. It
installed just fine, booted up and after adding a few drivers, I had
it running just fine.

Re-booted and selected Windows XP from the boot menu. BAM...ntldr
missing. XP would not boot. What the heck???

Loaded up Vista Boot Pro and used the option in it to uninstall the
vista boot loader and restore XP. Of course now Vista will not boot.
Had no choice tho as I needed to have my XP setup working.

Any ideas how to get Vista working again? Do I need to try a new
install of it again or can I use Vista Boot pro to restore the vista
bootloader. And if I do use Vista Boot pro to restore the vista
bootloader will it also keep access to my XP available?

Dont want to screw up here and lose my XP setup and have to re-install
it.
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I resorted to dual booting by way of the BIOS Boot order.
See if your BIOS will allow you to select a different HD to boot from
(HD0,HD1...)
IMHO Dual boot with previous versions of Windows is important and
needs to be a no brainier, as the Boot Menu selection implies :-)


BTW The DEFAULT OS boot names supplied at Install should either be
more descriptive (Boot: Windows or Windows, is not much help) or
Involve the Installer AT INSTALLATION TIME to provide +Naming+ of the
other installed OS rather than requiring "Post" install discovery and
tweaking.
 
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