Boy did I screw up!! Dual boot issue. Help!!!

[Guest]

I know better and that is why I have a policy against doing what I did...

A friend called me and asked me to help him over the phone and rather than
either one of us having to drive for an hour, he talked me into it.

He has a new system that came with Vista Home Premium. He wanted to install
XP Pro on a seperate partition on his drive. He only has on HDD. He was
actually quite resourceful and researched how to shrink the Vista partition
and create a partition using Vista's Disk Management. That all went fine. I
then had him reboot with the XP disk in the drive and proceeded to install XP
on the newly created partition. That went well. After installing XP it will
only boot to XP. First thing I had him do was remove the logo from the boot
sequence so he could watch for the boot option menu. That was fruitless.

I then tried to walk him through the fixes listed in KB919529. HE stated
that upon trying to input the commands he received an error message
indicating that these commands were not "known internal or external commands."

He needs to use XP for certain apps, but wants to keep Vista for his primary
OS.

Where do I go from here????

Thanx,

Paul

 

[Guest]

http://www.vistabootpro.org/

Here is a link above to help him fix the mess.

http://apcmag.com/5485/dualbooting_vista_and_xp

And this is how it should have been done!

 

[Chris Game]

Here is a link above to help him fix the mess.

http://apcmag.com/5485/dualbooting_vista_and_xp

And this is how it should have been done!

I quite like these guides - is there general agreement that they are
complete, not overlooking anything vital?

--
Chris Game

"I've lost track of why and wherefore in this thread, but somehow
I got involved in it and I feel morally obliged to keep going.
I hope someone knows where we're going." -- Ed Cryer

 

[Guest]

Haven't you got anything better to do then DELETE a link that I gave him in
your reply?

A lot of people here don't read EVERY link.

You are doing a dis-service to people with problems.

 

[Guest]

It's okay Mick. I read it and have passed it on to my friend. I will find
out tomorrow how he did. Thanx for the info.

Paul

 

[Guest]

No worries, good luck.

It's okay Mick. I read it and have passed it on to my friend. I will find
out tomorrow how he did. Thanx for the info.

Paul

 

[Chris Game]

Haven't you got anything better to do then DELETE a link that I
gave him in your reply?

A lot of people here don't read EVERY link.

You are doing a dis-service to people with problems.

Why the attitude? Anyone can trawl back through the references if
they want to read earlier posts, I snipped out what was irrelevant
to my question.

 

[Guest]

Problem solved. He ended up deleting the XP Partition, which rendered it
unbootable. At that point he returned it to the store since it was only a
week old. Brought the new computer home, called the XP app vendor and found
a work around for Vista. I just assumed he had already tried that approach.
Oh well, you know what happens when you assume...

Mick,

I do thank you for the info. I have added it to my bag of tricks for future
reference.

Paul