Vista Boot menu has gone.

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I installed Vista as the second OS on my laptop that was running XP. I
created a second partition on the drive in my laptop and installed Vista on
this (Build 5600).
All has been OK for about 2 - 3 weeks, I was able to boot either XP or Vista
from the new Vista boot menu. Came into work today turned on my laptop and
the Vista boot menu has gone, my laptop now boots XP and XP only, no menu???
 
VistaBoot Pro installed on XP can recover the dual boot menu and the Vista
entry.
 
Yep!! I looked at Vista ProBoot ver 2.1. It could see the Boot Manager the
Boot Loader for Vista and the Legacy OS Loader, but I am still unable to get
the Laptop to see the boot menu. Any idea?
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Thanks
Gareth Jenkins


Colin Barnhorst said:
VistaBoot Pro installed on XP can recover the dual boot menu and the Vista
entry.
Click to expand...
 
Check that the drive with Vista Boot file is the 'system' drive. Look in
Disk Management and make sure the partition with the Vista boot file is the
active partition. If so, you should use VistaBootPro to restore the Vista
MBR.



Gareth said:
Yep!! I looked at Vista ProBoot ver 2.1. It could see the Boot Manager the
Boot Loader for Vista and the Legacy OS Loader, but I am still unable to
get
the Laptop to see the boot menu. Any idea?
Click to expand...
 
Have you tried booting from the dvd and using the startup recovery to see if
it will fix the problem?
 
Sorry for the double post, but I just thought that you might want to also
check the timeout value in the BCD. If the default OS is XP and someone
changed the timeout to zero, it will boot straight into XP and not display
the menu.
 
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