Dual Boot problem

[Guest]

HI I decided it was time to install Vista however i have run into a few
problems.

I have been running the lappy on xp pro, dual boot with vista beta.

I decided to trash the vista installation and install a full copy.

So I deleted the vista beta partition. within the setup of vista. then
selected that as my new destination for vista business edition.

However I can boot to vista but no dual boot option as before.

When I look in the computer management it seems xp is on a logical drive??
and not system partition as it should be .

How can i edit the boot loader to look for the xp installation.

I think I should have taken more care and researched this for a moment .

Any help much appreciated

 

[thecreator]

Hi Andre,

The problem comes from deleting the Vista Beta partition, instead of
just reformatting the partition from Windows XP, then booting from the Vista
CD and choosing to install to that partition, just formatted.

 

[Guest]

Actually a little more complex than that.

I had Xp pro 1st partiton, vista beta 2nd partition.

I then decided it was time to reinstall XP and a full version of vista.

I booted XP pro (from cd) and deleted and reformatted the XP old
installation, reinstalled xp. everything good.

Then I ran vista installation from boot the deleted the old beta version and
installed on that partition. when all was finished it did not see the xp
install.

In computer management in vista I have Vista as primary partition on root.
Xp is on D:\ but comes up as logical drive.

To top it all I cannot find the boot.ini/ntldr or ntdetect on xp or vista.
(I have obviously got hidden files uncheck.)

I think they got trashed with the vista beta version..

Anyway of saving this? or spend another day and get it right?

Cheers

 

[John Barnes]

Are these both on the same drive or different drives (hd). You say you have
a logical drive with XP on partition 1 and primary drive with Vista on it on
partition 2. Correct? If so, copy the ntdetect.com and ntldr files from
your xp install cd to the Vista drive and I would also put them on the XP
drive. Download and install VistaBootPro or EasyBCD and add and entry for a
legacy drive pointing to the XP drive. Some have had to run bootcfg /rebuild
from the recovery console

 

[Guest]

Thanks John,

All done.

Had another problem, The Xp would not let me login on domain re: computer
name, i just renamed the computer, deleted the the pc from container and
updated dns re server to reflect the new name on xp.

Much more impressed with the released version of Vista though they'll be
issues no doubt. It's all gravy Hopefully when i can get all my proggys to
work well within Vista then i'll rid the XP.

You guys do a great job!!

 

[John Barnes]

Glad it worked out. Thanks for checking back.

Thanks John,

All done.

Had another problem, The Xp would not let me login on domain re: computer
name, i just renamed the computer, deleted the the pc from container and
updated dns re server to reflect the new name on xp.

Much more impressed with the released version of Vista though they'll be
issues no doubt. It's all gravy Hopefully when i can get all my proggys
to
work well within Vista then i'll rid the XP.

You guys do a great job!!