Dual Boot XP Pro and Vista

[Guest]

Hi,

I have XP Pro and Vista Home Basic installed on two separate hard drives.

After some errors on the XP installation I booted from a CD and ran FIXMBR
and FIXBOOT.

After reboot XP works fine but the OS Selection dissapeared and can't boot
to Vista.

How do I repair this without reinstalling Vista.

Thanks

 

[Jane C]

Boot with your Vista DVD in the drive. You need to select the 'Repair my
computer' option, then select 'Startup Repair'. You overwrote the Vista
bootloader, Repair will put it back.

 

[Guest]

Thank you for your reply.

Unfortunately I installed from a downloaded installation package and do not
have a Vista DVD to boot the computer with.

I think what I need are instructions on how to repair it manually by using
BCDEDIT.EXE.

Thank you again.

 

[Jane C]

VistaBoot Pro http://www.vistabootpro.org/ can be installed and run from
XP. Very good for fixing errant bootloaders. And far easier than BCDEDIT.