Dual Boot

[Tel]

OK heres my story. I have a dual boot with Vista and Win XP, I loaded Win XP
first then loaded Vista from within it and all went well upon completion.
However, when i enable bitlocker (Using a USB falsh drive) I can not access
windows xp, When I click on it my system just reboots to dual boot menu but
I can access Vista without no problems. I never had this problem before as I
have always done a dual boot in this manner. Does anyone have a answer to
this, many thanks.

 

[John Barnett MVP]

Bitlocker initiated during initial boot up of the PC, therefore, without
inserting the USB key with the bitlocker code you 'shouldn't' have access to
anything. That is exactly how it works on my system. The whole idea of
Bitlocker is to prevent access by a third party to the information on your
computer. If it only protected Vista access could easily be gained by
booting to XP, so, in a nut shell, Bitlocker is doing the job it was
designed to do.

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[Tel]

Like I said i was able to do it this all the other times I re-installed
them. But not on this time around.

 

[John Barnett MVP]

If the system is rebooting when you click on the XP menu option it may be a
case that the XP entry in BCDedit isn't correct. Have you tired downloading
VistaBootPro? Install it and then launch VistaBootPro. You will get a
message that VistaBootPro has detected that you haven't backed up your
system BCD registry etc, just press OK and VistaBootPro will open at the BCD
Registry Backup restore Center tab. You can ignore this and move on to
clicking the 'Manage OS Entries tab. Here you should see a list of operating
systems that are in the BCDedit file. In your case you should see Vista and
XP. IF XP isn't there then you will need to add it (see below). If XP is
there, then there may be a corruption, so I suggest you highlight the XP
entry and then click the Red X to delete the entry.
Once the entry for XP has been deleted you can 'add' the entry again. Place
a check mark in the 'Click the Add New OS Entry' option at the bottom of
the window. Some new dialogue boxes will now appear. Add the name for the
new OS, then click the down arrow on the box marked OS Type and select
'legacy operating system' Finally, in the OS drive section, click the down
arrow and select the drive letter that house your windows XP operating
system. Now click Apply Updates and reboot your system. Xp should be
available and, hopefully, once selected, should run.

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[Tel]

Thanks John I tried what you said and still no go. Like I said I use too be
able to do it the way I mentioned in my first post the only thing that is
different is that iI replaced my motherboard with an asus P5b-vm do it use
to be an acer motherboard but that one went on me. I noticed that the Asus
motherboard supports a TPM Module forwhich I do not have therefore that is
why I still use the USB Flash. I thank you for your help and your reply in
this problem I guess I will just have except the fact that everytime I boot
in to Win XP I will loose my restore points, I must admit it's very rare I
use Sysytem restore anyway. Once again many thanks.

 

[John Barnett MVP]

An alternative would be virtual machine software. You could then run XP on a
virtual machine within the host operating system. That's what I do now. I'm
running Vista Ultimate with XP running as a guest using VMware Workstation
6.0. Obviously VM workstation 6.0 is not free (costs around $200) but it
does have the advantage of having USB support for the guest operating
system. If you are not bothered about USB support (unfortunately my current
HP printer doesn't work well with Vista, hence needing USB support on the
guest OS) then you could always try Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 which is free.

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[John Barnett MVP]

Just as an addition to my last post you can only use VM software on Vista
Ultimate, Business and, I think, Enterprise editions. Although users have
used VM on Vista premium it is in violation of the End User Licence
Agreement.

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