Can't boot to Vista

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Guest

I had to install Vista beta from an external dvd player. I formatted the
drive and then installed XP Pro on a 40 gig drive. I set up XP to install on
15 gigs (C). After the installation (I needed the dvd player drivers) I
install Vista over the same partition. All went well and installation was
complete. I put the XP Pro disk back in and installed it on a new 10 gig
partition (F). Installation went well and loaded normally. Upon restart, I
have no option to select operating systems. The startup files under msconfig
shows only the XP operating system. Any ideas?
 
A

Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]

Windows XP uses a different bootloader from Vista (based on BCDEdit. You
will need to boot from your Vista DVD, choose the Repair Computer on the
Vista setup window page, click the Startup Repair link - This will
automatically fix problems that are preventing Windows from starting.
 

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